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Doing that would require modifying existing code, testing and validating the new software and setting up a secure facility where the FBI could try to break the passcode, said Erik Neuenschwander, Apple's user-privacy manager.

Last week, its counsel, Marc J. Zwillinger wrote to the aforementioned New York judge asking him to rule on whether it can be compelled to assist investigators to break the passcode on its iPhones — arguing that a court ruling on the matter would be more efficient than repeat debates each time the government seeks to compel it to crack the security on an individual device.

The FBI has a warrant to search the iPhone, but Apple's encryption technology erases the phone's data after 10 failed attempts to break the passcode.

Other branches of the Trump government, from the Drug Enforcement Administration to the Food and Drug Administration, have splashed between $15,000 and $30,000 on different models of the GrayKey, which requires physical access to an Apple device before it can break through the passcode.

Conyers gets at this asks by asking Sewell what the functional difference is between asking Apple to break its own encryption, and asking Apple to weaken the passcode protections.

And if it's impossible for GrayKey, which counts an ex-Apple security engineer among its founders, it's a safe assumption few can break iPhone passcodes.

Make sure to remember the passcode, or you'll be locked out yourself.

For now, the case significantly reduces such concerns because it is outside traditional investigative journalism to help sources try to break passcodes so they can illegally hack into government computers.

The passcode can't die yet.

The government declined to disclose any details on the individual who supplied the passcode.

Apple has a long history of providing data extraction services to government agencies, but these methods do not rely on it breaking passcodes, and only apply to iPhones running iOS 7 or previous.