
Will the FBI ever find anything useful on a phone used in the San Beardino shootings?
James Martin/CNETThe FBI reportedly hasn't found anything helpful to its investigation of the San Beardino terror attack on an iPhone used by one of the shooters, a device that prompted a tense standoff between the govement and Apple.
The law enforcement agency is still analyzing information from the iPhone 5C, which was used by Syed Farook, according to a CBS News report. Farook was one of two shooters involved in the December 2015 attack that left 14 people dead.
The iPhone was at the center of a legal back-and-forth between the govement and Apple. The govement wanted Apple to write new software that would unlock the phone and make its data readable. Apple refused, saying that weakening the encryption would potentially leave other iPhone users at risk.
Many technology companies and privacy advocates sided with Apple. Law enforcement officials said encryption of data hinders investigations.
The govement eventually tued to an uamed third party to unlock the phone.
The technique used to unlock the iPhone hasn't been divulged publicly and may never be, according to Obama administration sources cited in a Reuters story on Wednesday. The third party that created the method for unlocking the phone is the legal owner of the process, according to the report.
The White House uses a procedure called the Vulnerabilities Equities Process to review technology flaws and determine which ones should be made public. However, that process doesn't cover flaws found by private companies so the third party in this case is under no obligation to reveal how it into the phone, Reuters reported.
The FBI itself may not even know how the method worked, govement sources told Reuters, so it can't spill the beans either.
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