Professional hackers have the FBI according to one report, the cracking of the iPhone the assassin of San Bernardino made possible without the data has been deleted. Back door was therefore a software failure of Apple
Professional hackers have discovered a software error in the iPhone, according to a press report and helped as the US Federal Bureau of Investigation in cracking the smartphone of the assassin of San Bernardino. As the “Washington Post” reported on Tuesday, citing informed sources, the FBI paid the hackers once for help. The discovery of the software error was cracking the mobile phone access codes possible without walked that data will be lost
According to “Washington Post” the FBI would have had no problems, the four-digit personal access code of the assassin to crack -. The Federal police would have to have to activate a setting that had been cleared by all the data on the smartphone. Thanks to the discovery of the software error, the investigators could therefore produce a hardware part, could be cracked with the help of the code without the whole iPhone data has been deleted.
had the assassin Sayed Farook early December with his wife shot 14 people in an Islamist attack in San Bernardino, California, before the couple was killed by police in a shootout. The US Justice Department tried since mid-February, Apple to force decryption of the iPhone – on the grounds that this could potentially bring important evidence come to light, however,
Apple refused, despite a court order to help the investigators. , The company saw a danger that a precedent should be created in order to facilitate general access by the security authorities on iPhones. End of March announced the US government then, the FBI had cracked the smartphone and need the help of the technology group no longer
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Washington (AFP)
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