The US federal police, FBI, said Wednesday that Apple will not disclose how he managed to unlock the iPhone from one of the perpetrators of San Bernardino, a case in which the manufacturer refused to help.
AFP
Justice had asked Apple to help the FBI to unlock the device, considering that could contain important evidence for the investigation into the shooting in the Californian city of San Bernardino, in which 14 people were killed in early December.
The software giant categorically refused, putting forward the protection of the privacy of its users, so the researchers had to rely on a third party to gain access to the phone in question.
The FBI said that Apple will not explain how he managed to unlock the iPhone, claiming a technical question: have no details on how the external service proceeded.
"The FBI bought the method to a third party in order to unlock the device San Bernardino," he said in a statement Amy Hess, FBI deputy director for science and technology.
"However, we not bought the rights to the technical details of how the method works, or the nature and extent of vulnerability (the device) in which to operate that method is based," he added.
The FBI paid more than a million dollars for the service of unlocking the device. The researchers did not specify what they found in the phone, but said they found important evidence as part of an investigation into an issue of national security.