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FBI Gains Access to Suspected Trump Shooter’s Password Locked Phone

The FBI announced on Monday it had successfully gained access to the phone used by Thomas Matthew Crooks, the suspected shooter in the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.

404 Media is an independent website whose work is written, reported, and owned by human journalists and whose intended audience is real people, not AI scrapers, bots, or a search algorithm. The FBI has successfully gained access to the password protected phone of Thomas Matthew Crooks, the deceased suspect in the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump. Some specifics such as how exactly the FBI bypassed the phone’s protections remain unclear, but the news signals that the reality of sourcing evidence from password locked devices in high profile cases is greatly different to what it was nearly ten years ago, when the U.S. Department of Justice tried to force Apple to undermine the iPhone’s security mechanisms to access data on the phone belonging to the San Bernardino shooter.

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