FBI says it reset the San Bernadino shooter’s iCloud password (and maybe royally messed up)
Feb21
In the ongoing battle between Apple and the FBI that surrounds the slippery slope of manually unlocking a single iPhone, both the company and the government had a skirmish over one particular detail: who reset the phone’s iCloud back-up. Late this week, Apple had indicated that had the iCloud password on the San Bernadino shooter’s iPhone 5c had been reset, which could have possibly deeply hindered the company’s ability to extract updated data from the phone. And, perhaps even more important, that mistake could have forced the company into the very position it is in now. Initially, it appeared the FBI pointed…
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