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The FBI could have broken into San Bernadino shooter's phone without Apple

by Nate Cardozo and Andrew Crocker eff.org published 2018-04-027 min read

The Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) last week released a new report that supports what EFF has long suspected: that the FBI’s legal fight with Apple in 2016 to create backdoor access to a San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone was more focused on creating legal precedent than...

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