GOVERNMENT IS JUST ANOTHER WORD FOR THE THINGS WE SCREW UP TOGETHER: San Bernardino Shooter’s Apple ID Passcode Changed While in Government Possession, Apple Says. “The auto reset was executed by a county information technology employee, according to a federal official. Federal investigators only found out about the reset after it had occurred and that the county employee acted on his own, not on the orders of federal authorities, the source said. Apple executives say the phone was in the possession of the government when that passcode was reset. A federal official familiar with the investigation confirmed that federal investigators were indeed in possession of the phone when the reset occurred.”