Despite paying a squad of hackers tounlock the San Bernardino iPhone , the FBI may have no power to share the secrets behind the method .
Sources from within the Obama administration havetold Reutersthat the squad of hackers that helped the FBI unlock the iPhone have “ sole effectual possession of the method . ” That means , the seed claim , that it is improbably unlikely that the FBI would be able-bodied to excuse to Apple — or anyone else — how the process work .
Thereportexplains that the White House runs what it calls a Vulnerabilities Equities Process to appraise security flaw like the one used to unlock the San Bernardino iPhone . It ’s used to determine how information about such vulnerabilities is share more wide .
But according to its source , Reutersclaimsthat the Process is “ not set up up to address or reveal defect that are discover and owned by individual company . ” It adds that “ without cooperation from the fellowship , the FBI would not be capable to render the method to the Vulnerabilities Equities Process even if it wanted to . ”
And cooperation may bear witness hard , impart news from earlier this week intimate that the FBIstruck a one - time dealwith a virtuously … ambiguous squad of hackers to crack the headphone ’s security measure . It could , it seems , plainly have no control over what go on with the details of the taxicab .
[ Reuters ]
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