Monday, March 28, 2016

The U.S. says it has hacked the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone

The U.S. says it has hacked the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone, ending the suit against Apple but raising new privacy questions

Monday, March 28, 2016 6:04 PM EDT


The Justice Department said Monday that it was withdrawing a legal action that would have forced Apple to cripple the security system on an iPhone used by a terrorist.
The Justice Department is stepping back from the case — which involved demanding Apple’s help to open the iPhone used by Syed Rizwan Farook, a gunman in a mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., last year — because law enforcement has found another way into the device, officials said in a filing.
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