U.S. Justice Department drops case against Apple

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“The Justice Department is expected to withdraw from its legal action against Apple, as soon as today, as an outside method to bypass the locking function of a San Bernardino terrorist’s phone has proved successful, a federal law enforcement official said Monday.,” Kevin Johnson and Jon Swartz report for USA Today.

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“The official, who is not authorized to comment publicly, said the method brought to the FBI earlier this month by an unidentified entity allows investigators to crack the security function without erasing contents of the iPhone,” Johnson and Swartz report.

Johnson and Swartz report, “‘It’s not about one phone. It’s very much about the future,’ Cook said in an interview with Time last week. ‘You have a guy in Manhattan saying I’ve got a hundred and seventy-five phones that I want to take through this process. You’ve got other cases springing up all over the place where they want phones taken through the process. So it’s not about one phone, and they know it’s not about one phone.’”

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