They don't want to do that because they want to establish a legal precedent that a US court order has to be complied with in foreign jurisdictions.

Likewise they wanted to establish a precedent that Apple (and every software company) had to supply a way to decrypt anything.

Rod

On 15 July 2016 at 12:28, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.nz> wrote:

I wrote:

> The peculiar thing is, there are already international arrangements
> under which the US can ask the Irish Government to request one of
> their courts to order the surrender of the data. But they don��t seem
> to want to do that.

This is the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty, mentioned in this report
<http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/07/microsoft-wins-court-rules-feds-cant-use-sca-to-nab-overseas-data/>.

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