The FBI unlocked the San Bernardino iPhone

After weeks, it seems that a fight between FBI and Apple is over today, at least in the federal court that has begun it all.hack fbi

The Government of officially declared that he succeeded in obtaining on the iPhone 5C used by the San terrorist , Syed Rizwan Farook.

"The FBI has now successfully recovered the data stored on the San Bernardino terrorists' iPhone and therefore no longer requires the assistance of Apple required by this judgment." said US Department of Justice spokeswoman Melanie Newman.

The Justice Department also reported (as expected) that this method the feds were able to unlock the device only works on this particular phone, which is an iPhone 5C that ran a iOS 9.

Of course this statement is very convenient for the Federals, who do not want to report the security gap to Apple…

Read: Will the FBI unveil the security gap in Apple?

Experts, however, argue that breaking into a single phone is impossible, and that once the vulnerability has been found it could easily be used to access each device.

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