I've gone from a small distaste for apple (mostly over how heavily proprietary they've gotten) to outright hatred over those comments. Everything he said sounds like a paranoid's treatment of the matter. I don't know for certain what happened, no one does but Jason and the guy who found the phone, but his accusations sound crazy. When did Jason Chen/Gizmodo make any effort to extort Apple? I really want to know. And he's in the seat of the "victim" in the case, the more distorted his perspective on the matter, the more distorted the accusations and difficult to unearth the arguments. It's sort of like a wild accusation you receive that you have no idea how to respond to, the more distant it is from reality, the harder it is to redress.