Is Game Over for Apple?Who's the Mysterious 3rd Party that Helped FBI unlock San Bernardino Shooter's iPhone?

Since the San Bernardino shooting that killed 16 and left more than 24 injured, the encryption war between Apple and FBI has really been a drama ,A cyber drama if we may say.If you don't know about the whole incident you can read the full story here .

HOW THE CASE PROGRESSED:

In the beginning FBI actually asked Apple to unlock the iPhone but Apple due to privacy matters
denied to corporate.In reaction to that FBI filed a case against them and the court ordered Apple to unlock the iPhone but Apple declined again.

Experts put forward a number of theories  such as "decapping ,replay attack and exploiting previously unknown security vulnerability" to access data on the iPhone

In the mean time,John McAfee  the founder of McAfee Antivirus came up with a way to unlock it
but his solution was only applicable when the data on the phone was not encrypted.Read full story here                     

FBI FINALLY DID IT :

On 28 March,The US Justice Department announced that they have accessed the iPhone and dropped the legal case against California based tech giant Apple.Watch what Apple CEO Tim Cook  said  about this:

Apple may have not liked it very much but this gave authorities the ability of accessing more information about more people around the world ,which may help them solve more cases and tackle crimes.FBI had so much of a hard time getting into San Bernardino shooter's iPhone that we can conclude  IT'S NOT EASY to access data in someone's iPhone.

With FBI being able to access iPhone now means they can easily access any iPhone

QUESTIONS ASKED NOW:

BUT a lot of other questions which are asked now like  WHO IS THE MYSTERIOUS 3RD PARTY THAT HELPED FBI  and specially "HOW"

Well the answer is FBI worked with an  Israeli Company CELLEBRITE to  unlock the iPhone .
Cellebrite is a company which manufactures data extraction, transfer and analysis devices for cellular phones and mobile devices.

The Company itself offered its assistance to hack into the iPhone but FBI has stated this to be "inaccurate"
The method used by FBI to unlock the iPhone is still a mystery and FBI has not released it publicly.

IPHONE ENCRYPTION STILL MATTERS:

 FBI might be able to hack into iPhone and this may appear to be a defeat for Apple's security measures but the efforts made by US Justice department shows that no other law enforcement authority of Unites states and other countries will again force Apple to allow access to user data unless the case is relatively serious.

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance has said that "there are 175 other iPhones we would like  Apple to unlock" and I think Apple has not helped to crack those and also will never help in future.It was just this case's potential exception that FBI and NSA cracked the iPhone and put Apple under pressure regarding this case.

 Apple will now most probably manufacture iPhones with such sophisticated security measures so that the next iPhone wont be cracked by any possible means.