April 26, 2016

FBI to keep Apple guessing on San Bernardino iPhone hack

A man walks up the stairs at the Apple Store in Grand Central Station February 25, 2016. Apple has been in a legal fight with the government in the San Bernardino case, where the FBI wants the company to help hacking the iPhone of Syed Farook, a US citizen, who gunned down 14 people with his Pakistani wife Tashfeen Malik in the California city in December. / AFP / Timothy A. CLARY (Photo credit should read TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images) The FBI plans not disclose to Apple the method it used to access an iPhone belonging to the San Bernardino shooter, or submit it for an internal government review, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The FBI announced in March that it had purchased a hacking tool from a third party that enabled it to access data on an iPhone used by Syed Farook. Farook and his wife killed 14 people… Read More

Source: TechCrunch