The US government forces the hand to Apple: now unlock the iPhone killer, rejection is a marketing choice – Il Sole 24 Ore

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This article was published on February 19, 2016 at 21:36 hours.
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NEW YORK – The US government passes counterattack against Apple and Silicon Valley. The Department of Justice has filed a new legal request to the judiciary to immediately force the company to “unlock” the iPhone found in possession of one of the bombers of San Bernardino. And he denounced the security concerns of the privacy and security of users cited by CEO Tim Cook as the result of marketing strategies and attempts to misrepresent the facts.

Federal prosecutors have triggered the new move today, even before that ‘Apple to deposit by Friday’ next scheduled an appeal against the first instance decision of the judge Sheri Pym had given reason to the authorities’ federal. “Apple seems to oppose his objections on the basis of the combination of a perceived negative impact on the business model, reputation and marketing strategy,” they stated in their complaint. And, they added, and ‘guilty of “numerous erroneous characterizations of the obligations of the order and a misunderstanding of the law.” Cosi ‘doing would choose to “publicly repudiate” the decision of the judiciary “instead of assisting the efforts to fully investigate a deadly attack.”

Cook had published an open letter in recent days to warn of a “dangerous precedent” if Apple was required to comply with the request to decrypt the iPhone 5C terrorist, Syed Rizwan Farook. The company claims that the government, using an obsolete law of the eighteenth century, would that would create de facto a “back door” that can violate the smartphone protection. A “too dangerous” solution ’cause once created would expose all consumers to future abuses or crimes by pirates.

The dispute has seen take the field other hi-tech American protagonists, beginning with Google , alongside Apple who has since assumed influential legal teams for their own defense. He has assumed the character of a broader clash between national security and privacy issues, as time and creeping and ‘now exploded into the open. MPs Republicans have also threatened to propose new laws criminalizing the resistance of companies to demands for “open” to the authorities’ their technologies and their products.

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