FBI likely to back down against Apple after major claim exposed as false

The US law enforcement agency is reportedly on the brink of backing down in a heated battle with Apple after its core argument was exposed as a fallacy.

The FBI has been trying to persuade a US judge to force Apple to comply with a court order to build an iPhone operating software that can be hacked by agents. Despite having the weight and resources of the world’s most powerful government at its disposal, the FBI claimed it was unable to hack the phone used by San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook.

But not everyone was buying it.

Former analyst and NSA leaker Edward Snowden called the FBI’s claim “bullsh*t” to a room full of people at a conference in Washington this month.

Millionaire programmer and the man responsible for the first commercial anti-virus program, John McAfee, also rubbished the apparent admission of technical impotence saying, “The FBI is trying to fool the American public.”

The implication was that the FBI was using the high profile case in an effort to set a legal precedent it could use to force tech companies to comply with future investigations.

It turns out, there was probably something to the allegation.

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