WASHINGTON — The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is testing the method used to crack a terrorist’s iPhone to see how many other versions of the device it could open, but it could take officials many more months to decide what to do with their newfound ability.The showdown between the FBI and Apple over the locked iPhone of San Bernardino gunman Syed Rizwan Farook came to a halt this week when officials announced that an undisclosed third party had shown the government a technique for decrypting the phone’s data.The FBI has not disclosed the technique or what it found on the phone.The government did, however, drop a high-stakes legal bid to force Apple to help investigators breach the device’s security features.Apple has not identified the security flaw that let the FBI access Farook’s iPhone 5C, or determined how many of its other devices might be vulnerable.The 5C was not a particularly big seller for Apple, limiting the technique’s value unless it works on other models.Still...
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