The Apple vs. FBI saga seems to be at and end after the law enforcement agency was able to break into the iPhone 5c used in the San Bernardino shooting.
The huge political and legal to and fro between the FBI and Apple has come to an end after the FBI managed to decrypt an iPhone 5c owned by San Bernardino attacker Syed Farook with the help of a third-party forensic software firm.
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The struggle between the two parties took on issues like device encryption, data protection and counter-terrorism efforts. The war however will probably go down in history as a tie. On one hand, the Cupertino-based tech giant stood its ground against the US Department of Justice, and evaded any definitive laws passed in Congress forcing it to comply with court orders in cases of private information extraction from iDevices. On the other, the FBI eventually found a back-door into the much publicised iPhone 5c.
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Sounds like a favourable outcome all-round? Think again. Tim Cook will be worried about the fact that some sort of iOS vulnerability was exploited and the FBI will definitely not be able to sink the time and resources (used in this case) in future investigations. Were not sure whether Apple engineers know how the FBI broke into the phone.
A number of questions remain unanswered, and folks worried of potential large-scale government privacy intrusions are likely not happy.
Source: PocketNow
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