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Technology & Science

Mar. 23, 2016

FBI may have a way around forcing Apple to help it break into iPhone

U.S. Magistrate Judge Sheri Pym granted the federal government's request for a continuance on a hearing Tuesday after prosecutors said they want to explore a way to get access to data on a killer's iPhone without Apple Inc.'s help.

By Amanda Schallert
Daily Journal Staff Writer

The FBI may have found another way to unlock the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino mass killers, rendering moot the U.S. government's efforts in court to compel Apple's help in developing a code to crack the device's encryption.

The news that another party has demonstrated to the FBI a possible solution came Monday as the U.S. attorney's office filed an ex parte application for a continua...

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