Seeing posts saying FBI could not get into WaPo reporter's phone because she had it in Lockdown Mode. This isn't true. They couldn't use forensic tool to capture full-disk image, but they could still access contents. They had to take photos of it, though, which is still a gain for privacy.

Imagine a forensic team having to take photos of every piece of content they want and to re-record each voice recording. Making it uber-cumbersome and inconvenient for a government to collect data is still a win for privacy

Wording of my post is confusing. To clarify, they *were* able to access phone content they wanted, but could not take it from disk image of phone. Instead, they took it from Signal app on her laptop because it sync'd w/ Signal on phone. So yes they could not unlock phone but did still access content

After the initial linking the desktop Signal is associated with your account independently of the phone (it has its own keys and can send/receive even when the phone is offline), so technically it's not phone content.