02.03.2016 - 17:33 [ CBS News ]

Apple: Investigators ruined best way to access terrorist data

(22.2.2016) According to senior Apple executives on Friday, the FBI might have been able to obtain data from an iPhone 5C belonging to Syed Farook, one of the San Bernardino terrorists, by connecting it to a familiar Wi-Fi network and having it create a new backup on Apple‘s iCloud service.

The idea was foiled, the executives say, because the password to the terrorist‘s iCloud account was reset shortly after the FBI took possession of the phone