Who is helping the FBI crack the San Bernardino shooter’s phone? It’s Israel’s Cellebrite, according to Reuters, which cited a report in the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper.

And while the outside help is not coming from John McAfee, who was going to eat his shoe on live TV if his team could not crack the encryption, McAfee likened the method to a “universal master key.”

McAfee told CNBC, I promise you that [Apple CEO] Tim Cook and Apple are not going to be happy with the solution that the FBI has come up with because it is almost as bad as a universal master key.” While he didn’t say the exact method the FBI would use, he added, “It’s much, much easier to break into a phone using this technique. I’m not fond of it.”

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