[Infowarrior] - Official: DOJ to withdraw legal action against Apple

[Richard Forno]

Official: Justice Department to withdraw legal action against Apple

Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY 5:27 p.m. EDT March 28, 2016

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2016/03/28/apple-justice-department-farook/82354040/

The Justice Department is expected to withdraw from its legal action against Apple Inc., as soon as today, as an outside method to bypass the locking function of a San Bernardino terrorist’s phone has proved successful, a federal law enforcement official said Monday.

The official, who is not authorized to comment publicly, said the method brought to the FBI earlier this month by an unidentified entity allows investigators to crack the security function without erasing contents of the iPhone used by Syed Farook, who with his wife, Tashfeen Malik, carried out the December mass shooting that left 14 dead.

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