FBI battle over locked iPhone could have been avoided with a $4 piece of software

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The entire legal battle between the FBI and Apple over the San Bernardino shooter’s locked iPhone could have completely been avoided with just a simple $4 piece of software. According to an article on CBS News, the shooter's iPhone 5c could have been unlocked remotely had the county government which owned and issued the phone installed mobile device management (MDM) software.

All the more frustrating is that the county actually paid for MDM services but failed to install the requisite software.

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