U.S. Says It May Not Need Apple’s Help to Unlock iPhone - The New York Times

An "an outside party" demonstrated a possible method for unlocking -- perhaps the NSA got the memo after all...

"The Justice Department moved to cancel a Tuesday hearing over whether Apple should be forced to help investigators break into an iPhone used by a gunman in last year’s San Bernardino, Calif., mass shooting. 

In a new filing on Monday, the Justice Department said it might no longer need Apple’s assistance to extract data from the phone used in the attack."

U.S. Says It May Not Need Apple’s Help to Unlock iPhone - The New York Times