FBI paid hackers to get data from shooter's phone

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April 13, 2016 5:52 PM

New reports suggest that the FBI paid hackers a single lump sum to gain access to the iPhone 5C of the San Bernardino shooter.

When FBI announced that they had gained access to the iPhone 5C of the San Bernardino shooter, our first concession was that the

That was wrong. The today claimed the federal agency rather resorted to hackers.

The latter would have discovered a flaw called Zero Day, which is a previously unknown vulnerability to the IT community.

The new information was then used to create a piece of hardware that helped the FBI to crack the iPhone's four-digit personal identification number without triggering a security feature that would have erased all the data.

Other information according to the report, a piece of hardware was custom made to hack the device by brute force, that is to say, by testing all possible combinations, or 10,000 with a four-digit code. If tried one code per second, it would have taken less than three hours to get through it. But according to the FBI, the operation did not take more than 26 minutes.

Also according to the Washington Post , the hackers were paid a single lump sum, in the tech world, this hacker is called a "gray hat".

Gray Hat describes a hacker who exploits a security weakness in a computer system or product in order to bring the weakness to the attention of the owners. Unlike a black hat, a gray hat acts without malicious intent.

Apple however, has expressed interest in finding out how the FBI broke into the phone, but the decision on whether to disclose fully the method used has not yet been taken.

READ : Apple VS FBI - How did the FBI crack the phone?

The White House will soon decide in agreement with the Justice Department, the NSA, the CIA and the Department of Homeland Security.

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