FBI has accessed San Bernardino shooter’s phone without Apple’s help

An article in The Washington Post about successful efforts by the FBI to unlock the iPhone used by one of the shooters in the San Bernardino terrorist attack quotes Mark Bartholomew, a professor of law who specializes in intellectual property and technology law, who said he expected Apple would work to learn how the phone had been unlocked so the company could fight the problem. “They’re going to pursue this in the courts, and I don’t know where this will end up,” he said. Bartholomew also was quoted in a story on ABC News. “It is sort of a mixed bag for Apple. On one hand they don’t get the outcome they dreaded, which is a federal court telling them their engineers have to write the code, but on the other hand it tells the world the FBI apparently has the ability to get into your phone,” he said. Stories also appeared on news outlets that include ABC News Radio and WBAL-AM in Baltimore.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-has-accessed-san-bernardino-shooters-phone-without-apples-help/2016/03/28/e593a0e2-f52b-11e5-9804-537defcc3cf6_story.html

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http://abcnewsradioonline.com/national-news/apple-encryption-battle-whats-next-after-feds-drop-case.html

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