FBI Paid Hackers to Expose Unknown Apple Vulnerability to Crack San Bernardino iPhone

After the FBI’s brief legal standoff with Apple over access to one of the San Bernardino shooters’ iPhones, the FBI managed to finagle its way into the locked phone and get the data it needed without Apple's help. But how did it manage to do it? FBI Director James Comey has publicly hinted in the vaguest possible terms how the agency managed to get into Syed Farook’s phone. On Tuesday, the Washington Post filled in a number of the blanks, reporting the FBI hired professional hackers on a fee-for-service basis who exploited a previously unknown software flaw....
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