edward peterson is on the phone from los angeles. paul is still with us. let me start with you.at the apple event last week, it felt like this case gave the apple people more of a mission about what they do and how they approach privacy or whatever they are doing. >> yes, and it brings the question to the table, how can apple advance with every generation. here is one big thing that they can advance. security. cory: what do you think of this development? >> it is significant that the u.s. filed its status report ending the case a week before they had to. which indicates that they probably knew last week already that they had a fix for this problem and could break into this phone and are just doing a few tests to make sure it was working happily. the ended it when before they could have. they were not due to file anything until april 5. it is significant that the government is wanting to end this case as soon as popular -- soon as possible. cory: you know a little bit more than the average bear about how these things work. do you support this notion that the government may have a