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Exclusive: Common Mobile Software Could Have Opened San Bernardino Shooter's Iphone

Ron Burgundy

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Pieces of an iPhone are seen in a repair store in New YorkBy Jim Finkle Feb 19 (Reuters) - - The legal showdown over U.S. demands that Apple Inc AAPL.O unlock an iPhone used by San Bernardino shooter Rizwan Farook might have been avoided if his employer, which owns the device, had equipped it with special mobile phone software it issues to many workers. San Bernardino County, which employed Farook as an environmental health inspector, requires some, but not all, of its workers to install mobile-device management software made by Silicon Valley-based MobileIron Inc MOBL.O on government-issued phones, according to county spokesman David Wert. The problem is that the MobileIron software was not installed on Farook's phone because his department did not use it.




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