FBI says hack tool only works on iPhone 5c<article>
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Only the iPhone 5c running iOS 9 can be unlocked by the tool the FBI bought to crack the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino killers.</p><p>
The tool does not work on the iPhone 5s or 6, so it only addresses
a “narrow slice” of iPhones, Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey said late Wednesday at Kenyon College.</p><p>
The government is considering whether it should disclose to Apple the flaw that aided the hack: “We just haven’t decided yet,” he said at the Ohio college’s Center for the Study of American Democracy.</p><p>
A court in California ordered Apple to help the FBI to hack by brute force the passcode of the iPhone 5c. The government was concerned that, if an auto-erase feature was activated on the phone, the data that the FBI was looking for would be automatically erased after 10 unsuccessful attempts, so it wanted a workaround from Apple.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3053079/security/fbi-says-hack-tool-only-works-on-iphone-5c.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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FBI says hack tool only works on iPhone 5c
