Technology World: FBI failed to access encrypted smartphones

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Agents at the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have been unable to extract data from nearly 7,000 mobile devices they have tried to access, the agency's director has said. KK Fung and Winmas Yu explain in this episode of Technology World, whether the FBI could use other alternative methods to access mobile devices.



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