FBI managed to hack terrorist’s iPhone without Apple’s help, lawsuit withdrawn

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The US Department of Justice announced on Monday that it had withdrawn its lawsuit against Apple, which had previously refused to help the FBI hack the iPhone of “San Bernardino shooter” Syed Farooq.

“The [US] government has gained access to the information contained on Farook’s iPhone and no longer requires assistance from Apple,” the Justice Department said in a statement. Details of the contents of the smartphone are not provided.

The December attack in california, whose victims were 14 people, is considered the largest terrorist attack in the United States after 11 September 2001.

Apple Company intended to challenge The decision of the American court, obliged the manufacturer of smartphones to help investigators to access the mobile device of the suspect.

Investigators are confident that extremely important information is stored on the phone. According to Apple CEO Tim Cook, an unprecedented step, which the government forced to take, threatened the security of the company's customers.

Apple stressed that only a person who knows the password from the device can access information from an iPhone. Even company employees are said to have no access to the information contained in the phone.

The FBI also wanted Apple engineers to remove the limit on the number of attempts to enter a password (now 10 attempts), and also help create a program that will automatically iterate over all possible combinations at high speed.

The current “hacking” of the shooter’s iPhone, in turn, raises questions regarding the security of Apple devices. The company can also now go to court, although exactly how law enforcement officers managed to gain access to the phone is not reported.

Comments from Apple has not yet followed.

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