FBI Apple also in the second case does not need

- The US authorities also have a second profile case had not required the help of manufacturer Apple to view information on an iPhone.

This time investigators from the FBI did not even have to call in the help of hackers, because the owner still gave the password. The suspect involved in a drug case had previously asserted themselves who do not remember, as was shown by the Wall Street Journal from court documents.

It is the second time that the US government finally Apple did not need to force through the courts to give access to an iPhone. The company had in an earlier case the FBI refused to help unlock a phone from the perpetrator of a terrorist attack in the California San Bernardino. With the help of the federal investigative hackers managed to crack the phone itself eventually.

However, the investigating authorities have in several other cases dozens iPhones possession which they do not have cracked the encryption. Apple does not want to cooperate because that would undermine consumer confidence in the product and the company.