Fbi hacks the iphone of the san bernardino terrorist

After the controversy between the FBI and Apple about the unlocking of the phone of Syed Farook, one of the terrorists who killed 14 people in the San Bernardino public health department in California on December 2, finally the authorities of the United States Together they managed to access the phone without the help of Apple.

The iPhone 5c that unlocked the FBI

The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), James Comey, confirmed that he was able to unlock the terrorist's iPhone phone with the intention of accessing sensitive information that would help him to reconstruct the events in the hours prior to the attack, where Syed Farook died. and a woman who was part of the terrorist gang.

The controversy flared when Apple refused to unlock the terrorist's phone after the FBI's express request, at that time Apple argued that it could not unlock the phone (an iPhone 5c) because it could compromise the security of all Apple phones and that the Authorities did not understand the risks of creating a "back door" flame to access the iPhone.

Finally the FBI contacted a group of "hackers" , so to speak, who managed to unlock the phone and access all the information in late March, the head of the FBI, James Comey, has commented on this:

“I know the people from whom we buy this tool considerably, and I have a high degree of confidence that they are very good and their motivations align with ours, ” said James Comey.

Syed Farook and the woman guilty of the San Bernardino shooting

James Comey also clarified that the tool they used to unlock the phone works only with some specific iPhone (among which is the iPhone 5c) and that the new iPhone 6 models and their derivatives cannot be unlocked with this method.

The fact that Apple does not want to reveal information about a terrorist sparked controversy and a moral debate. Did Apple act well? The explanations he gave at the time were not entirely convincing.