FBI officially confirms hack it used does not work with the iPhone 5s or later iPhones<div class="feat-image">
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<p>It has been <a href="
http://9to5mac.com/2016/03/29/opinion-fbi-apple-not-over-yet/" target="_blank">widely speculated[/url] that the method used by the <a href="
http://9to5mac.com/tag/fbi/" target="_blank">FBI[/url] to access the San Bernardino iPhone might not work with phones that have the <a href="
http://9to5mac.com/tag/secure-enclave/" target="_blank">Secure Enclave[/url], and this has now been effectively confirmed. FBI director James Comey told
<a href="http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/07/technology/fbi-iphone-hack-san-bernardino/" target="_blank">CNN[/url] that the method doesn’t work with the latest iPhones.</p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">The FBI director also said the purchased tool worked only on a “narrow slice of phones” that does not include the newest Apple models, or the 5S.</span></p>
<p>This fact also lends support to the <a href="
http://9to5mac.com/2016/03/09/edward-snowden-fbi-apple/" target="_blank">main theory[/url] about how the hack was performed …</p>
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