Third Party helped FBI to hack Iphone 5C

[Silaaj]

Re: Third Party helped FBI to hack Iphone 5C

@Rayan

OK, i think i should elaborate bit more. FBI was never after Apple for a single phone, they wanted Apple to weaken the secure enclave they built into their CPUs, they wanted Apple to build a backdoor to unlock iphones, they wanted an exploit not to unlock the phone, but to make it so they could have more attempts.

I think that FBI was actually simply looking for a legal judgement against Apple, thus creating a precedent for Google. Because simply getting access to iphones is not enough, as more than 70% of users use Android phones. And because of the open source nature of android, there could be 100s of different variations of security encryption in android based phones. And having to go back to the drawing board for every other phone will be tedious for FBI, or any hacking firm. Hence having a legal precedent was necessary.