FBI may have found a way into terrorist's iPhone

The courtroom showdown between Department of Justice and Apple that was scheduled for Tuesday has been postponed.

The DOJ made the request after saying it may have found an alternative way into the iPhone used by Syed Farook, the gunman in the San Bernardino shooting. The DOJ has been pressuring Apple for help in gaining access to the iPhone.

But in a court filing on Monday, the DOJ said it may no longer need assistance from Apple.

"On Sunday, March 20, 2016, an outside party demonstrated to the FBI a possible method for unlocking Farook's iPhone...If the method is viable, it should eliminate the need for the assistance from Apple Inc," the document reads.

Federal investigators want to see what data is available on the iPhone, but it is permanently locked. They can't try to guess the passcode, because if

How the hell could the FBI hack into that iPhone?

Experts have lots of theories, but the one that seems likeliest would be a grind.


On Monday, forensic scientist Jonathan Zdziarski wrote his own explanation of NAND mirroring and argued that it was the FBI's most likely tool.

Still, there are other possibilities.
Exploiting a software flaw

The feds could conceivably hack Apple's software running the iPhone through a software flaw, according to Johnson. That vulnerability might affect the way the phone works over wireless Internet, Bluetooth or cellular communications, or investigators might find a flawed app on the phone they could use to their advantage.

Whatever it is, the flaw would have to be severe to let investigators all the way into the phone's core and tell it to open. The biggest problem with this theory is that

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