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N. Virginia consistently has more problems than other zones. Is it possible this zone is also hosting government computers/could it be a more frequent target for this reason?

The tools mostly come from Grayshift, an Atlanta company co-founded by a former Apple engineer, and Cellebrite, an Israeli unit of Japan’s Sun Corporation. Their flagship tools cost roughly $9,000 to $18,000, plus $3,500 to $15,000 in annual licensing fees, according to invoices obtained by Upturn. The police can send the trickiest phones to crack, such as the latest iPhones, to Cellebrite, which will unlock them for about $2,000 a device, according to invoices. Law enforcement can also buy a similar premium tool from Cellebrite. The Dallas Police Department spent $150,000 on one, according to the records.

We got a 24 hour mandate to upload a tracking free version. Fuck you Apple. "Your lack of preparedness is not my emergency."

My European dev team is now up at almost 1am on Saturday putting in a fix for this.

Unless Apple themselves is going to provide tools to help make better, crash-free software, these are necessary third party tools.