After the controversy generated by the FBI and Apple for the Cupertino-based company to unlock the iPhone 5c used by one of the terrorists of the San Bernardino attack, several documents from the Los Angeles court of law have just been leaked in which you can read that the city police department has managed to get a method to unlock iPhone 5s.
The iPhone 5s in question belonged toThe wife of The Shields actor Michael Jace, who was murdered in the south of the city. The code to unlock the phone was obtained a month ago, thanks to the collaboration of a person, whose name is not revealed, an expert in telephony, security and forensic analysis.
The reason given by the Los Angeles Police Department for trying to access the actor's wife's iPhone 5s was police concern about the problems in the relationship. These problems sparked the interest of the police to try to access the text messages that had been sent and check if they found any information related to the crime.
To try to access the iPhone 5s, an Apple engineer was required to help the police extract the data, but he was unable to do so. In a second he tried, several engineers could not access the device, which was finally deactivated. We do not know which version of iOS the phone had installed, but the models that have reached the market from the iPhone 5s they are much more difficult to unlock than older models, thanks to what Apple calls the Secure Enclave, where a single processor handles the encryption used to turn on the phone and access the system.