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The Pensacola shooting resurfaced an old squabble over encryption between the FBI and Apple, with US Attorney General William Barr and President Donald Trump taking official stances against Apple, urging the company to unlock the iPhones belonging to suspects in criminal investigations.
Ironically, the FBI is actually quite good at unlocking encrypted phones without Apple’s help. In a matter of weeks, we've heard of two cases where an iPhone 11 has been cracked without any assistance from Apple. Even more ironically, one of the iPhone 11s belonged to Lev Parnas, an associate of Rudy Giuliani, who may play a central role in the impeachment trial going forward.
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The FBI needed two months to hack Lev Parnas’ iPhone 11 originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 22 Jan 2020 at 18:35:39 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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