Ondrej Holzman The U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday that it found a successful recipe for getting into a secure iPhone the FBI seized from one of the terrorists from last year's San Bernardino attack, without Apple's help. He is thus withdrawing the court order against the Californian company, which was supposed to force Apple to help the investigators.
"The government has now successfully obtained data stored on Farook's iPhone," said the Justice Department, which until now did not know how to crack the security of an iPhone belonging to one of the terrorists who shot and killed 14 people in San Bernardino last December.
The American government no longer needs Apple's help, which it requested through the court. According to the statement of the Ministry of Justice, the investigators are now going through the data that they extracted from the iPhone 5C with the operating system iOS 9. Third party name, which the FBI helped bypass the security lock and other security features, the government is keeping secret. However, there is speculation about the Israeli company Cellebrite.
Apple has so far refused to terminate several weeks of sharp conflict by the Department of Justice to comment, however, he said that he too had no information on who was helping the FBI.
It is also not clear what method investigators are using to obtain data from the iPhone and whether it is also applicable to other phones that the FBI has not been able to access in some cases. The current court case Apple vs. So the FBI ends, however, it is not excluded that the US government will again demand the creation of a special operating system in the future that would compromise the security of iPhones.
the guys from the FBI took courage and tried 1234 :)
But I believe they peed their pants ;)