> They sent it to be repaired. After the warrant extension expired, the repair guy fixed it and updated the firmware.
These sentences you wrote are just as misleading, if not more so. The "repair guy" was a government detective who performed the repair by re-flashing firmware at a forensic laboratory during a period when no search warrant was active [1]:
> Detective Sheldon Clay, an HSI Task Force Officer at that laboratory was able to repair the iPhone 6 by replacing its circuit board and re-flashing the device's firmware. Mot., ECF 106, EX. D at 2. At that time, Detective Clay also determined that new forensic software was likely able to bypass the iPad's passcode.
The headline of TFA claims that the reflashing of firmware was for the purpose of facilitating a search.
These sentences you wrote are just as misleading, if not more so. The "repair guy" was a government detective who performed the repair by re-flashing firmware at a forensic laboratory during a period when no search warrant was active [1]:
> Detective Sheldon Clay, an HSI Task Force Officer at that laboratory was able to repair the iPhone 6 by replacing its circuit board and re-flashing the device's firmware. Mot., ECF 106, EX. D at 2. At that time, Detective Clay also determined that new forensic software was likely able to bypass the iPad's passcode.
The headline of TFA claims that the reflashing of firmware was for the purpose of facilitating a search.
[1] https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25423841/no-disassemb...