Feds Drop Another iPhone Unlocking Case After Asking Perp For His Password
The U.S. government's quest to legally force Apple to help it bypass the encryption on iPhones just keeps getting weirder.
First the Department of Justice withdrew its high-profile case surrounding an iPhone 5c used by one of the San Bernardino shooters, after an “outside party” provided a technique to circumvent the device's security features on the eve of a major courtroom showdown.
Now a similar case in New York involving an older model iPhone 4S has also been dropped, but for a much simpler reason: The phone's owner, a drug dealer named Jun Feng, has apparently remembered his passcode.
“Yesterday evening, an individual provided the passcode to the iPhone at issue in this case,” U.S. Attorney Robert L. Capers wrote in a letter to the court Friday evening. “Late last night, the government used that passcode by hand and gained access to the iPhone. Accordingly, the government no longer needs Apple's assistance to unlock the iPhone, and withdraws its application.”
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