{"id":2629,"date":"2016-04-13T19:58:36","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T11:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/13\/fbi-paid-hackers-who-cracked-the-san-bernardino-iphone-report-says\/"},"modified":"2016-04-13T19:58:36","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T11:58:36","slug":"fbi-paid-hackers-who-cracked-the-san-bernardino-iphone-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/13\/fbi-paid-hackers-who-cracked-the-san-bernardino-iphone-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI paid hackers who cracked the San Bernardino iPhone, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you’re the FBI, and Apple refuses to assist you, how do you crack open a locked iPhone? Apparently, the same way as everyone else (provided you have sufficient funds): You pay professional hackers to do it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to a report<\/a> by the Washington Post<\/i>, published Tuesday, the agency managed to crack open the\u00a0iPhone 5C that was used by <\/span>San Bernardino<\/a>\u00a0gunman Syed Farook by paying a one-time fee to an unnamed group of hackers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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SEE ALSO: FBI \u2018pretty confident\u2019 iPhone hack only works on iPhone 5C with iOS 9<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The hackers defeated the device’s security by using a previously undiscovered security flaw in the iPhone’s software. This flaw was then used to create a hardware device that helped open the iPhone without triggering the security feature that erases all of its data after too many\u00a0<\/span>unsuccessful\u00a0login attempts.\u00a0<\/span> Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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If you’re the FBI, and Apple refuses to assist you, how do you crack open a locked iPhone? Apparently, the same way as everyone else (provided you have sufficient funds): You pay professional hackers to do it.\u00a0 According to a … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1142,1830,1829,725],"class_list":["post-2629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-fbi","tag-hackers","tag-san-bernardino","tag-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}