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Current Events Breakdown: To unlock a terrorist’s iPhone, the FBI turned to an obscure company in Australia; a technique called an “Exploit Chain” was used.
So there’s quite a juicy, drama-filled story in the Washington Post that could be a Hollywood plot line about Apple, the FBI, a terrorist’s iPhone, and HACKERS!!! Azimuth Security, a publicity-shy company that says it sells its cyber wares only to democratic governments, secretly crafted the solution the FBI used to gain access to the device, according to several people familiar with the matter. The iPhone was used by one of two shooters whose December 2015 attack left more than a dozen people dead. So, yeah Azimuth is a hacking firm for the better good you can say. Azimuth is a poster child for “white hat” hacking, experts say, which…