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OK, but sometimes when I send iMessages, they actually send as SMS if my service is poor or the receivers service is poor, someone is in the subway, on a flight, etc etc.

Chances are, this happened at least once over the lifetime of the terrorists ownership of the phone - thus we can at least see who they are communicating with, right?

Wouldn't that be a good starting point?

And call records - they must have called someone - if only to talk about the weather.



You can turn off the SMS fallback in Settings.


> Chances are, this happened at least once over the lifetime of the terrorists ownership of the phone - thus we can at least see who they are communicating with, right?

Is that really acceptable to you? Maybe they accidentally screwed up once so it's OK to keep the private affairs of a dead terrorist secret for no good reason?

> Wouldn't that be a good starting point?

I would have thought the best starting point was unlocking the phone, given the owner is dead and committed horrific crimes.


Apple do not have the ability to unlock the phone. They have the ability to create a tool that could unlock any iPhone. That is not a starting point.


Therefore they have the ability to unlock the phone. I mean I knew people defended Apple here but I didn't think they'd demand logic no longer works to satisfy that.


I would start with anything available, dig deep, and never give up. Including breaking down the doors of anyone they texted or called.


> Including breaking down the doors of anyone they texted or called.

But not the service provider intentionally denying access to this vital information? What a bizarre twist of logic!




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