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Apple versus the FBI has taken another twist today with the feds calling off the latest court hearing saying that they might be able to hack that iphone without apples help after all the FBI has told the court it has been offered a new option for accessing the data on the iphone 5c belonging to San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook in its motion to cancel tomorrow's hearing the FBI said an outside party demonstrated to the FBI a possible method for unlocking farooq's iphone testing is required to determine whether it is a viable method that will not compromise data on farooq's iphone the court has given the FBI until april five to test out its new and unnamed method and find out whether or not it still needs to pursue apple in its demand to create a special version of iOS to unlock this phone just this morning at Apple's launch event for the new iphone SE and ipad pro Apple CEO Tim Cook kicked things off by discussing its battle with the FBI we need to decide as a nation how much power the government should have over our data and our privacy we did not expect to be in this position at odds with our own government but we believe strongly that we have a responsibility to help you protect your data and your privacy so is this a win-win or a lose-lose for security does Apple really win if the FBI can hack its older iOS without any help or does the FBI really win after such a public tussle with America's biggest corporation I'm sure there's more twists and turns as the april five deadline approaches so keep up with all the news on cnet com