Apple (and the FBI) for the day

The BBC has an article about the unfinished war between the FBI and Apple:

The FBI says it may have found a way to unlock the San Bernardino attacker's iPhone without Apple's assistance.
A court hearing with Apple scheduled for Tuesday has been postponed at the request of the Justice Department (DOJ), Apple has confirmed.
The DOJ had ordered Apple to help unlock the phone used by gunman Rizwan Farook, but Apple has continued to fight the order, saying it would set a "dangerous precedent".
Rizwan Farook and his wife killed fourteen people in San Bernardino, California, last December before police fatally shot them. 

Analysis by Dave Lee, BBC North America technology reporter:
Ever since this issue arose, security experts have been saying "surely the FBI can do this themselves"? Well, maybe now they can.
An "outside party" (you'd assume a security company, but we don't know for sure) has approached the FBI and said it could unlock the phone. If they can do it, the court case is irrelevant. The FBI gets what they need. But, if it doe not work, we'll find ourselves resuming the trial.
Apple's legal team told reporters it wasn't treating it as a legal victory. The issue still looms large over the company. If the FBI has found a way, who's to say it'll always work? Apple will, as any software maker would, frantically try and fix the flaw. After all, if the FBI can do it, so can any other hacker privy to the same information. If this method works, then what? With each new iteration of iOS, Apple could find itself back in court.
The technology industry, led by Apple, has called for the matter to be debated in Congress. This case may be on the brink of going away, but the debate is just starting.
Attorneys for Apple told reporters that the firm had no idea what method the FBI was exploring to try to unlock the phone. They said they hoped the government would share with Apple any vulnerabilities of the iPhone that might come to light.
The FBI says Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik were inspired by the so-called Islamic State, and that the encrypted iPhone may contain crucial evidence. It wants to access the data, but the device can only be unlocked by entering the correct passcode.
Guessing the code incorrectly too many times could permanently delete all data on the phone, so the FBI had asked Apple to develop a new version of its operating system that circumvents some of its security features.
Last month, the DOJ obtained a court order directing Apple to create that software,
But Apple has fought back, stating that creating a compromised version of the operating system would have security implications for millions of iPhone users and would set a bad precedent.
The company has received support from other tech giants, including Google, Microsoft, and Facebook, as it resisted the court order to unlock the iPhone.

Rico says he's betting they get the iPhone unlocked, find out there was nothing worthwhile on it, and never mention it again...