Magistrate Orders Apple to Help FBI Hack San Bernardino Shooter's Phone
http://www.wired.com/2016/02/magistrate-orders-apple-to-help-fbi-hack-phone-of-san-bernardino-shooter/
A CALIFORNIA MAGISTRATE has ordered Apple to help authorities
hack a cell phone belonging to one of the shooters in the San
Bernardino attack last year. In an ironic twist, however, the
FBI didn't ask the court to order Apple to unlock the phone, but
merely to help the FBI in its bruteforce attempts to unlock the
device on its own. Magistrate Sheri Pym, in the US District
Court of Central California, ordered the tech giant to provide
the FBI with software designed to defeat a self-destruct
mechanism on the iPhone, according to the Associated Press,
which first reported the news. The self-destruct mechanism
automatically erases data on a phone after a specific number of
failed password attempts, or rather erases a key that could be
used to decrypt that data.
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