Apple has to help the FBI to join your iPhone belonging to one of the bombers in the massacre of San Bernardino, California, in December 2015 that killed 14 people along with your partner. The couple died in a gun battle with police that day, but the FBI has recovered the iPhone a bomber from their vehicle after the attack. A US federal judge ordered now that the Cupertino company has to work together.
Federal prosecutors told the court that they could not access the phone used dall’attentatore they do not know his access code. The ruling of the US Magistrate Sheri Pym requires Apple to provide “reasonable technical assistance” to the FBI, so it must develop a software (which no longer exists) can disable the security feature that erases the iPhone data after ten attempts failed to unlock. With the disabled protection function, the FBI will have more opportunity to groped ‘combinations to unlock the iPhone.
The iPhone in question – an iPhone 5c – even though it was in possession of the aggressor actually it was owned by his employer, who has consented to the police using it as evidence and search for information that could be useful for the resolution of the case.
Apple has already announced that it intends to oppose the order: “Forcing the code would be a dangerous precedent.” The decision to “oppose this order is not something we take lightly,” said the CEO of Apple, Tim Cook. “We believe that we must make our voices heard in the face of what we see as excessive by the US government.”
Big Silicon Valley from the Apple . Through social, leaders of major hi-tech companies (Google, Facebook, Twitter and Whatsapp) have expressed support to Apple.
Bill Gates by the FBI part . The co-founder of Microsoft Bill Gates was on the side of the police, stating in an interview with Financial Times you do not share the fear of Apple that unlocking an iPhone means having to put in force at risk the security of all. “This is a case-specific, not general, in which the government asks for information.” Gates in the interview compared the FBI’s request to that made on a particular bank account, hoping that there are strict rules for such cases in the future.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (an international non profit organization of lawyers and law given to the protection of digital rights and freedom of speech in the context of today’s digital age) is considering filing a Amicus curiae to Apple support and expects others groups that support the digital rights will do the same, said Kurt Opsahl, general counsel for the EFF.
“If the US government may force Apple to do this, why not the Chinese or Russian governments ? other countries will ask to do the same for other similar cases. We want to have this earlier? ” Opsahl said, as reported by USA Today .
If Apple develops a software can disable the security feature that erases the iPhone’s data after ten failed attempts to unlock it software that could be used for other iPhone, and if it gets in the wrong hands could be used for different purposes.
Cook argues that agree to cooperate with the FBI could “threaten the safety of our customers .
<'p> in an open letter, Cook said that Apple will cooperate with the FBI by providing “the data that are in our possession,” but will not develop a “backdoor” for its software: “We have great respect for the FBI professionals, and we believe that their intentions are good. So far, we have done everything that is in our power to comply with the law to help them. But now the uS government has asked us anything we simply do not have, and something that we consider too dangerous to create. They asked us to build a backdoor for the iPhone. “
In particular,” the FBI wants a software able to circumvent several important safety features on the iPhone, and install it on an iPhone recovered during ‘investigation. In the wrong hands, this software – which does not exist today – would have the potential to unlock any iPhone in possession of someone physically. “
The implications of government demands are” chilling “to Cook:” the government could have the power to reach the device to anyone and steal data. The government may extend this breach of privacy and ask Apple to develop a surveillance software to intercept messages, access to the medical records or financial data, track your location, or access the phone’s microphone or camera without you you know it. “
We’ll see what Apple will do, but this news goes to confirm how important the respect that a technology play must have towards their customers, even if it means going against the government.
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