FBI, NSA use 'gray market' companies to help unlock phones: report

The Hill: The FBI and NSA have utilized the "gray market" in order to aid in unlocking phones, according to a report from Slate.

The outlet reports that the FBI spent $1.3 million to pay a gray market company to unlock an iPhone used by Syed Farook in the 2015 shooting in San Bernardino, Calif. The gray market is a marketplace where hacking services are offered to government and corporate clients.

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