Name: The FBI Might Not Need Apple’s Help
Uploaded: 2016-03-22
Duration: 51 s
Description: To unlock a terrorist’s iPhone

The FBI Might Not Need Apple’s Help

The Justice Department says it may not need Apple's help to unlock the San Bernardino gunman's iPhone. After all, the Justice Department moved to cancel a court hearing scheduled for Tuesday over whether Apple should be forced to help investigators. But in a new court filing today, lawyers for the department wrote that an outside party had demonstrated a way for the FBI to possibly unlock the phone. The lawyers say further testing must be done to see if it's a valuable method that would not compromise data on the phone used by Syed Rizwan Farook. The Justice Department's move may help sidestep a big battle that has erupted between the United States government and Apple over the iPhone and how and when authorities should use the troves of digital data collected and stored by tech companies.