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From the, it would be funny if it weren't true, department.

It looks like the government's ability to access information on the iPhone 5c used by Saeed Farooq was thwarted

by the government.

CNET ran a piece late Friday that had unnamed Apple execs saying the FBI might have been able to obtain data from an iPhone 5c belonging to Saeed Faruke, one of the San Bernardino terrorists, by connecting it to a familiar Wi-Fi network and having it create a new backup on

Apple's iCloud service. The piece continues. The idea was spoiled the

executive say because the password to the terrorist's iCloud account was

reset shortly after the FBI took possession of the phone.

That meant iCloud and the iPhone couldn't recognize each other, the executive said.

This is an assertion that the FBI has since confirmed and it really did screw things up for investigators.

See, Apple has no problem giving the iCloud backups to which it has access to the FBI. It's given them access to the

backups that it does have up to mid-October when Farruk's not backing up to

iCloud. If the FBI had been able to trick Farruk's phone into making another backup after the shooter's death,

Apple would have handed that right over.

But, CNET has Apple execs saying the password reset, performed by San Bernardino County at the request of the FBI

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