Report: FBI testing encryption-breaking software

Published March 24, 2016 8:31pm ET



The Federal Bureau of Investigation is testing software that would enable them to bypass the security on an iPhone 5C, according to a report on Thursday.

Speaking to the Washington Post on the condition of anonymity, officials reported that the software being used was identical to what they agency had been asking Apple to create. Specifically, it would disable a mechanism that erases the contents of a phone when an incorrect password has been entered more than 10 times.

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