The FBI isn’t going to share the hack it bought to get into Syed Farook’s iPhone with Apple, which means the law enforcement agency is intentionally withholding a 0-day exploit that could potentially be discovered by other parties and used before a patch is released. The reasoning behind the decision is that the FBI doesn’t know how the hack works, and therefore complying with the White House Vulnerabilities Equities Process (VEP) wouldn’t reveal any useful information.
FBI executive assistant director for science and technology Amy Hess told Bloomberg,
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