The FBI is cracking iPhone 11s without Apple’s help, so why does it need a backdoor?


Remember how, in 2016, Apple refused to comply with a court order to help the Department of Justice (DoJ) unlock an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters? The FBI was able to eventually gain access to the device without the company’s help — and the agency seems to be doing just fine with the latest models four years later. According to reports from Bloomberg and Forbes, the FBI has successfully unlocked current-gen iPhones in two recent cases. The first one involved an iPhone 11 belonging to Rudy Giuliani’s associate Lev Parnas, indicted for his involvement in pressuring Ukraine to…

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