Feds hack terrorist iPhone, drop case against Apple

The FBI dropped its case against Apple after reportedly hacking into the iPhone used by the San Bernardino terrorist.

Federal authorities dropped a suit against iPhone maker Apple after intelligence officials were finally able to hack into the San Bernardino terrorist attacker’s device and retrieve data.

The suit stemmed from Apple’s denial of the FBI’s demand to create a method of unlocking the iPhone – an unheard of demand that would have set the stage for the government’s ability to order private businesses to work for it. Apple denied the government, saying the creation of this technology would enable hackers and government the future ability to tap into private citizens’ phones at will or absent warrants. The feds then obtained a court order – in a hearing that was conducted without the presence of Apple – requiring the company to abide its demands.

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Apple, however, continued to resist, and the stand-off played for weeks in the media with some accusing the company of blocking the government’s efforts to fight terrorism.

But now the government’s suit has gone away.

“The FBI has now successfully retrieved the data stored on the San Bernardino terrorist’s iPhone and therefore no longer requires the assistance from Apple required by this court order,” Justice Department spokesperson Melanie Newman said in a statement reported by the Hill. “The FBI is currently reviewing the information on the phone, consistent with standard investigatory procedures.”

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The feds reportedly now have access to the phone used by Syed Rizwan Farook – which actually belonged to the county department he worked for – and can possibly glean more information about his December killing spree that left 14 dead in California.

The FBI specifically wanted Apple to create software that would disable the iPhone’s security system that wipes memory once incorrect passwords are inputted 10 times

Apple said that software was a “backdoor” to hackers, and that it violated the private company’s First Amendment rights because the government was ordering it to create a code for its own use – a sort of “speech,” the Hill reported.

In response to the dropping of the case, Apple issued a terse statement: “This case should never have been brought,” the company said.

The federal government didn’t explain how they hacked the iPhone, but said a third party came to them and explained how he or she did it.

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