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McAfee offers to unlock iPhone for FBI

Anti-virus creator John McAfee has claimed he can break the encryption on an iPhone that belonged to San Bernardino killer Syed Farook.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-356...hannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

If it was THAT difficult and important to get the data, they would simply have handed the device to the NSA.

Truthfully, this sounds like an agency attempting a "hardware double back". That is an internal term whereby the use of a compromised piece of equipment is encouraged by feigning its unassailable security (best done best both loudly and publicly) when, in fact, the opposite is true.

Not sure, but this seems a good out for Apple if FBI really needs assistance and McAfee really able to help.