The US Justice Department keeps asking for things and then go back on their word. They keep on asking Apple for help to unlock iPhones in different cases, but then they go back and say that they have already unlocked it themselves. This past Friday night, the government filed a letter to a court in Brooklyn saying that it does not need help from Apple to unlock an iPhone 5s that was used by a drug dealer. They said that a person had provided them the passcode to the iPhone so that they can gain access to it. This is the second time this past month that they have dropped a request to Apple needing help to get access of criminal data. The first one was an iPhone used by one of the terrorists in San Bernardino, California. Both times, they ended up getting help from a third party source to help get into the iPhone and access all the data. Apple has not yet responded to the filing. The FBI keeps on trying to get Apple to create a backdoor to bypass security features on the iPhone, but it keeps on looking like they already know how to do it themselves. They should really make sure that they cant unlock it themselves before they go to consult Apple a third time and go back on their filing again.
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