The FBI paid hackers unaffiliated with any professional tech firm to figure out how to break into an Apple iPhone, according to a Tuesday evening report.
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The bureau effectively used cybermercenaries, according to unnamed sources quoted by the Washington Post, to figure out how to break into the iPhone 5c used by terrorists in San Bernardino, Calif. It did not use the Israeli tech firm Cellebrite, as analysts had generally believed.
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