Kevin Johnson, USA Today:
The Justice Department is expected to withdraw from its legal action against Apple Inc., as soon as today, as an outside method to bypass the locking function of a San Bernardino terrorist’s phone has proved successful, a federal law enforcement official said Monday.
The official, who is not authorized to comment publicly, said the method brought to the FBI earlier this month by an unidentified entity allows investigators to crack the security function without erasing contents of the iPhone used by Syed Farook, who with his wife, Tashfeen Malik, carried out the December mass shooting that left 14 dead.
So the way I read this, the FBI got help and was able to crack the San Bernardino iPhone. Apple’s help no longer required. In this case.
Think this is over? No. One interesting question is, will the FBI explain to Apple how the iPhone was cracked, if indeed this story is true.
FBI and Apple aren’t exactly friends, so my guess is they probably rather have Apple spend that $15,278.02 to find out..
The passcode was probably “1234” all this time…
I wonder how long it will take for the true story about what was going on at the FBI to come out.
Don’t be silly. Why would FBI explain the hack to Apple? I any case, there’s a lot of probably pretty well informed speculation on what they did.
I hope they publicize everything they get off the phone as well as the exact method of the exploit they used. We all know nothing should be kept private.
“… and STAY down.”
Well, when the story is written, I certainly hope that it won’t be written by the hack that wrote “Steve Jobs.” Yeah. Walter Isaacson.
Everything on that iPhone?
Fine.
You publish your info first.
Because nothing kept private yaddda …
No thanks, I believe in privacy, unlike the FBI.