We are closely following the case of the Apple vs US gov battle. So what do we know so far?
The government states that the iPhone 5C is protected with a numeric password, so it can be cracked via brute force attack in about several days, but Apple doesn’t want to break into iPhone physically. Alternatively, the company suggested that the FBI leaves the device in the proximity of a known Wi-Fi network. It would make the iPhone produce a cloud backup into iCloud. Unfortunately, there was one final assumption that was not met: the user’s Apple ID password is not changed or reset. However, changing the Apple ID password prevented the iPhone from producing a cloud backup. With no possibility of making a cloud backup, the FBI goes back to Apple, asking the company to comply with the court order.
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