Apple Won't Sue FBI To Reveal Hack Used To Unlock Seized iPhone (appleinsider.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Apple will not pursue legal action against the US government to discover how federal agents broke into an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters. Attorneys for Apple speaking on background during a media briefing call on Friday said that it believed the method used to unlock the iPhone 5c would be short lived. It follows similar comments by FBI director James Comey who said in a speech on Thursday that the hack used to unlock the encrypted phone works on a "narrow slice" of devices. Apple attorneys said that the company is "confident" that the security weakness that the government alleges to have found will have a "short shelf life." The FBI's hack in the San Bernardino case would not help agents access a newer iPhone 5s used by a drug dealer in New York, where Apple faces a similar case against the government.

Comments

DMCA Violation?

[brian.stinar]

Doesn't it violate the DMCA, section 1201 which bans reverse engineering? I wonder if anyone could bring suit for the (potentially criminal) DMCA violations?

Re:DMCA Violation?

[Gravis Zero]

law enforcement is exempted from most laws, including the DMCA, dummy.
see subsection "(e) Law Enforcement, Intelligence, and Other Government Activities." which is literally right above subsection "(f) Reverse Engineering."