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		okasaki on Feb 17, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Message to Our Customers Since Apple is part of PRISM[0], the FBI can just ask the NSA. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PRISM_Collection_Details....

elemenopy on Feb 17, 2016 [–]

No: data held on Apple servers (iCloud) can be provided with a warrant, but this is about data held on an iPhone but not saved to Apple servers. As a result, neither Apple nor the NSA can immediately provide it, and some means of hacking the iPhone is needed.

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