Apple seeks to learn how govt cracked open iPhone

San Francisco

NOW that the US government has cracked open an iPhone that belonged to a gunman in the San Bernardino, California, mass shooting without Apple's help, the tech company is under pressure to find and fix the flaw.

But unlike other cases where security vulnerabilities have cropped up, Apple may face a higher set of hurdles in ferreting out and repairing the particular iPhone hole that the government hacked.