{"id":21652,"date":"2016-04-13T06:49:37","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T11:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=21652"},"modified":"2016-04-13T06:49:37","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T11:49:37","slug":"wapo-fbi-paid-professional-hackers-one-time-fee-to-crack-san-bernardino-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=21652","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: FBI paid professional hackers one-time fee to crack San Bernardino iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/fbi-paid-professional-hackers-one-time-fee-to-crack-san-bernardino-iphone\/2016\/04\/12\/5397814a-00de-11e6-9d36-33d198ea26c5_story.html?postshare=3811460507283935&#038;tid=ss_tw\">FBI paid professional hackers one-time fee to crack San Bernardino iPhone<\/a> by Ellen Nakashima:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The FBI cracked a San Bernardino terrorist\u2019s phone with the help of professional hackers who discovered and brought to the bureau at least one previously unknown software flaw, according to people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The new information was then used to create a piece of hardware that helped the FBI to crack the iPhone\u2019s four-digit personal identification number without triggering a security feature that would have erased all the data, the individuals said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: FBI paid professional hackers one-time fee to crack San Bernardino iPhone by Ellen Nakashima: The FBI cracked a San Bernardino terrorist\u2019s phone with the help of professional hackers who discovered and brought to the bureau at least one previously &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=21652\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cell-phones","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21653,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21652\/revisions\/21653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}