FBI requested San Bernardino County to play with the Apple ID password linked to iPhone--behind the Apple case

2-20-16 update
The Apple ID password linked to the iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino terrorists was changed less than 24 hours after the government took possession of the device, senior Apple executives said Friday. If that hadn’t happened, Apple said, a backup of the information the government was seeking may have been accessible....

Apple sent trusted engineers to try that method, the executives said, but they were unable to do it. It was then that they discovered that the Apple ID password associated with the iPhone had been changed sometime after the terrorist’s death.

The FBI has claimed that the password was changed by someone at the San Bernardino Health Department. Friday night, however, things took a further turn when the San Bernardino County’s official Twitter account stated, “The County was working cooperatively with the FBI when it reset the iCloud password at the FBI’s request.”  

http://www.buzzfeed.com/johnpaczkowski/apple-terrorists-appleid-passcode-changed-in-government-cust#.naxpGGmRG

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Bipartisan leaders of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee late Friday invited Apple's Cook and FBI Director James Comey to testify at an upcoming hearing on encryption, though a date was not set.

The House Judiciary Committee is also planning an encryption hearing for March and has invited Apple to attend, according to a congressional source.   http://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-encryption-doj-idUSKCN0VS2FT

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“This is what separates us from communism, isn’t it? The fact we have the right to privacy,” Carole Adams told the New York Post. “I think Apple is definitely within their rights to protect the privacy of all Americans.

“This is what makes America great to begin with, that we abide by a Constitution that gives us the right of privacy, the right to bear arms, and the right to vote.”  http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/feb/20/carole-adams-mom-who-lost-son-in-san-bernardino-sh/

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Or, as an economist would put it, "Greece's 'debt to GDP ratio' stood at 177%."

But today, Portugal's debt-to-GDP ratio is 130.2% ... Italy's is 132.1% ... Spain's is 97.7% ... and France's is 95% — and those debts are growing at an alarming rate.

Tokyo's is 233% — 42 times higher than the debt that caused Greece to go broke — and it, too, is still growing by leaps and bounds.

Most alarming: America's official national debt plus Washington's off-budget obligations now stand at $117 trillion. That gives the U.S.A. a total debt to GDP ratio of 101%   http://www.moneyandmarkets.com/reports/RWR/blackoctober/credential/?ccode=&em=&sc=BLADE1&ec=6809154&dv=MAM

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