![]() In a two-paragraph filing on Monday, the Justice Department said it had “now successfully accessed the data stored on Farook’s iPhone and therefore no longer requires the assistance from Apple.”įBI investigators have begun examining the contents of the phone but would not say what, if anything, they have identified so far. “The FBI has kind of shot themselves in the foot on this,” said Zdziarski. And law enforcement officials in New York, Los Angeles, and other jurisdictions have said they have hundreds of locked iPhones they want to access.īut if the FBI said it still needs Apple’s help to get into the iPhone 6 in the Boston case, Zdziarski expects the company to argue that the agency made the same claim in the Farook case. “It might take you a week to brute-force instead of a couple of hours.”Īpple has said the federal government has requested its help in nine other cases, including the one in Boston. ![]() ![]() “I’m not convinced that it’s impossible,” Zdzairski said. It was unclear Monday evening whether the method used to break into the San Bernadino phone could be used in the Boston case, which involves a newer iPhone 6 Plus that has additional security features.īut Jonathan Zdziarski, author of several books on iPhone software hacking and a consultant to law enforcement agencies, suspected that the FBI’s phone hacking technique would probably work on Crawford’s phone.
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