The FBI paid professional hackers to crack the San Bernardino terrorist's iPhone, it has been reported.
Researchers are believed to have created a piece of hardware which could get around the four-digit pin code jihadi Syed Farook used to get into the device.
They were able to design the technology after they found a flaw in Apple's software that had not been previously discovered, the Washington Post reported.
The hackers also managed to get into the phone without triggering a security feature that would have erased all of the data.
Sources told the newspaper they were paid a one-time fee for the work.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3537229/FBI-paid-professional-hacker-break-San-Bernardino-terrorist-s-iPhone.html
Very interesting article if true, Dennis. But what is even more interesting is that what was described there is a FEDERAL CRIME which the FBI is charged with tracking down, arresting, and bringing those who commit such crimes to justice!
White Hat crackers survive because they report the hacks they find to the manufacturers of the devices they hack so the vulnerability can be patched. Black hat and gray hat hackers are CRIMINALS, selling their hacks to people who intend to use them for profit. That is a crime as defined by FEDERAL LEGISLATION. If he FBI facilitated such an act, without arresting those responsible, they they are just as responsible for committing the act. No wonder they do not want to reveal who supplied the unlocking of the iPhone 5C.
All they had to do was ask the Chinese government since Apple had no problem at all giving the Chicoms the source code.