By John Glenday

The FBI has dramatically halted its legal push to force Apple to assist it in breaking into a locked iPhone 5C, after announcing that it had been able to do so independently.

The US justice department had been pursuing a court order aimed at obligating Apple to write new software which would enable officials to access data stored on a locked iPhone belonging to San Bernardino gunman Syed Rizwan Farook.

Prosecutors now say that an ‘outside party’ has stepped forward with a new means of cracking the device, rendering such legal pressure irrelevant.

In a statement Eileen Decker, chief federal prosecutor in California, Read full story ›

Source: The Drum