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Title: The government still needs Apple’s help to crack a locked iPhone 5s in New York
Post by: HCK on April 12, 2016, 04:05:25 pm
The government still needs Apple’s help to crack a locked iPhone 5s in New York

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Like sands through the hourglass, so are the iPhones the government wants Apple’s help breaking into.</p><p>
Recently, the FBI said it had paid for a “tool” that broke into the iPhone 5c (http://www.macworld.com/article/3048782/legal/doj-cracks-san-bernardino-shooters-iphone.html) used by San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook. The FBI also said that even though this tool allegedly works on a narrow slice of phones, they’d be happy to help other law enforcement agencies (http://www.macworld.com/article/3051102/security/fbi-will-help-us-agencies-with-tools-to-unlock-encrypted-devices.html) use it to break into locked phones they’ve seized in the course of investigating crimes.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3053962/ios/the-government-still-needs-apples-help-to-crack-a-locked-iphone-5s-in-new-york.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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