昨天，**在圣贝纳迪诺加密案中做出了令人惊讶的让步，此前一位不具名的消息人士透露了一种破坏iPhone锁屏保护的新方法。在匆忙召开的电话会议之后，双方同意暂缓法庭命令，直到确定苹果的帮助是否仍然必要。

但这一诉讼的法庭笔录摘录（首次在这里发表）显示，**对新方法的准备远不如一些人想象的那么充分。”“我们今天早上才知道这种可能性，”美国助理律师特雷西·威尔基森在电话会议上对法官说在这一点上，我们有一个善意的基础，以便提出它。”这一时间表与最近的法庭文件一致，这些文件显示，该方法的第一次成功示范将在周日到来。

这份成绩单还显示了对新方法能否奏效的信心和不确定性。”威尔基森说：“在这场诉讼中，有很多人向我们伸出了援手，提出了一些替代方法，但一个接一个，他们都因为这样或那样的原因失败了。”在这一点上，我们至少有一个诚信的基础，它将发挥作用。问题是我们不确定。”由于这种不确定性，**主张保留最初的命令，而不是撤销它，**随后批准了这一请求。

最初的论据来自苹果的Ted Boutros，要求完全撤销订单：

We have had a chance now to think this for about an hour, and we, obviously, defer to how the Court would like to proceed. We would not object to the hearing being postponed and moved because — and we request that the Court vacate the order that was entered ex parte. If the Court will recall, in the order — in the ex parte application the Government represented that the assistance sought could only be provided by Apple. And Agent Pluhar's declaration at paragraph 4 said that — testified that he'd explored other means, and the Government had been unable to identify any other methods feasible for gaining access. So the order was based on good cause. And we, respectfully, submit that there no longer is good cause.

威尔基森的相关反驳全文如下：

Your Honor, the Government's number one priority throughout this entire investigation has always been to gain access into the phone and we sought as a matter of necessity and not of choice. That said, we have been working tirelessly during this entire time to see if there's another way to do this, but I don't think we're there yet. We only learned about this possibility today, this morning, about this possibility that Apple is not necessary. And we have a good faith basis at this point in order to bring it up. There have been a lot of people who have reached out to us during this litigation with proposed alternate methods, and one by one they have failed for one reason or the other. And we haven't, you know, — there's just no reason to go into those.

But at this point we have, at least, a good faith basis that it will work. The problem is we don't know for sure. And while — if it's validated, the Court could then vacate the order. I think we are really premature to vacate the Court's order at this point because there's also the possibility that it will not work. I think we should just give the experts the time that they need to test it and let us report back to the court.