for that, we turn to devlin barrett, who covers the justice department for the "wall street journal,"red kaplan, a columnist with slate. he's the author of, "the dark territory: the secret history of cyber war." devlin, starting with you, did one or the other of the parties in this case back away, just back up? >> the government backed away. the government said... but it also got what it wanted in a sense because it got into the phone it had been trying to get into for months. i think what you saw happen was that the government spent two months saying it can't get into this phone without apple, and then at the last minute essentially it said, actually, someone has just come to us and told us that we can get into it without apple, and that's what happened. >> ifill: fred kaplan, the obvious question for so many of us is who broke into the phone for them, and how did they find them, and would they have been able to find them before without all of this legal mishmash? >> it seems to be a israeli cyber security firm which consists mainly of retired professionals from unit 822, which is th