The FBI has lots of options for cracking iPhones without Apple’s help

[Guest Brad Reed]

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The FBI would like us to believe that unless Apple helps it break into the iPhone 5c owned by San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook, it will miss out on a bunch of intelligence that could prevent future terrorist attacks. Many security researchers, however, have questioned whether the FBI really needs Apple's help to unlock this one device and Apple itself has questioned whether the FBI has really exhausted all its options for opening the phone.

 

Wired this week talked to some more security researchers who talked about even more alternatives for the FBI to pursue that don't involve forcing Apple to create a special version of iOS that can be used to hack into its own phones.

 

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