The FBI just filed a motion to delay Tuesday's hearing in the San Bernardino iPhone case, claiming that an "outside party" may be able to help it break into the phone without Apple's help. The motion comes after weeks of escalation tension in the case with Apple, the FBI, and other stakeholders arguing the case in public before it reached courts. It's not clear who is helping the FBI or what the new method entails, but it's probably not coming from the NSA, despite speculation that the intelligence agency has the ability up its sleeve; today's filing states that the help is coming from "outside the US government."
"As the FBI continued to conduct its own research, and as a result of the worldwide publicity and attention on this case,...
