Chalk up one for the good guys. Now the next interesting aspect is what they find on the phone. If it’s a terrorist goldmine it will put even more pressure on tech firms like Apple to appropriately respond to warrants.
SAN FRANCISCO — The Justice Department said Monday that it was withdrawing a legal action that would have forced Apple to cripple the security system on an iPhone used by a terrorist.
The Justice Department is stepping back from the case — which involved demanding Apple’s help to open the iPhone used by Syed Rizwan Farook, a gunman in a mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., last year — because law enforcement has found another way into the device, officials said in a filing.
“The government has now successfully accessed the data stored on Farook’s iPhone and therefore no longer requires the assistance from Apple,” the Justice Department said in the filing.
It is unclear what useful data, if any, was found on Mr. Farook’s device
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