The iPhone 5c used in the mass murder case of San Bernardino is in the procession of the FBI. They have regained the phone back in their hands after paying 15,000 US dollars to the group of the individuals who broke the iPhone and restored the data for them. After properly citing the gained evidences, FBI says that the mission could not leverage heights as expected by it. No such significant data has been recovered by FBI from the attacker’s phone.
The evidence reported from his phone are no doubt important in fact very important for legal and further investigation purpose however they are not significant as expected. It could not nearly end the plot leading to the direct master mind behind the whole scenario. Being a country owned phone no such huge success has been recovered from the phone however the data is undoubtedly important.
FBI paid a good sumo of more than US dollars 15000 for the one time job and it was duly completed the team of the grey hackers hired by them too. FBI expected the phone to be carrying a good size of information however being a country iPhone it did not have much information as expected. Never the less whatever information is identified from the phone is no lesser than gold. At least a good hand in investigation can be easily proceeded with the help of data obtained from the IPhone. FBI is quickly trying to build their hand in investigation by connecting dots of the information received. It is important for them to do the fact finding before reaching to any conclusion. FBI should be in a position to comment and share some of the valuable information with the public once they have concluded their investigation completely. Till then lets us wait for them to understand and complete it in their own way of work.