Roughly two weeks after the FBI announced that it had cracked the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone, the Washington Post reports that the agency didn’t engage Israeli security firm Cellebrite to assist in the case, as was widely believed. Instead, it collaborated with professional hackers. According to the Washington Post’s sources, the hackers discovered at least one previously unknown iOS flaw, which they exploited by with the help of a custom piece of hardware that they built. It allowed the FBI to decode the iPhone’s four-digit PIN without triggering the OS’ data wiping feature. This revelation gives the impression that like the…
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