This is a court order related to a terrorism case. Following your assumption that the FBI is interested in using information from Farook's cell phone in pursuance of additional terrorism-related activities, the DOJ could conceivably invoke the State Secrets privilege to exclude the methods used to bypass Apple's security measures from revelation. Also, in the case of Syed Farouk's iPhone, an attempt is being made to bypass encryption, the result of which is binary in nature - the resulting dump is intelligible, or it is not. Not that some attorney might not attempt to get all of the raw data (which could jeopardize other pending investigations) dumped from the phone in some future court case against other defendant(s), as well as the source code, etc., but National Security, commercial harm to Apple, and common sense might weigh the resultant evidentiary ruling in favor of the government.
Besides, "what he said" - this is all assuming that the FBI would only desire to use the phone's contents to further future prosecution(s), as opposed to avenues of investigation.
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This is a court order related to a terrorism case. Following your assumption that the FBI is interested in using information from Farook's cell phone in pursuance of additional terrorism-related activities, the DOJ could conceivably invoke the State Secrets privilege to exclude the methods used to bypass Apple's security measures from revelation. Also, in the case of Syed Farouk's iPhone, an attempt is being made to bypass encryption, the result of which is binary in nature - the resulting dump is intelligible, or it is not. Not that some attorney might not attempt to get all of the raw data (which could jeopardize other pending investigations) dumped from the phone in some future court case against other defendant(s), as well as the source code, etc., but National Security, commercial harm to Apple, and common sense might weigh the resultant evidentiary ruling in favor of the government. Besides, "what he said" - this is all assuming that the FBI would only desire to use the phone's contents to further future prosecution(s), as opposed to avenues of investigation.