WASHINGTON – The FBI has found a way to ‘get into the attacker’s cellphone San Bernardino without the help of Apple. It is not clear what the method identified by federal agents, but this allows the US Justice Department not to proceed with a lawsuit against Apple to get access to the information contained in the cell, which are considered necessary for the investigation.
the house of Cupertino had from the beginning that contrary to intervene for reasons of privacy, ready to face a series of processes, to the Supreme Court.
the release of the smartphone used by the killer who killed 19 people in a center for disabled people was made possible by “the recent help of a third figure”, whose identity was not à been disclosed, said the Federal prosecutor of the central Eileen Decker California, which has therefore asked the Federal Court to set aside the injunction against Apple to proceed with the decryption of the data contained in the iPhone.
“the government and ‘managed to successfully access the contents of the iPhone data Farook for this no longer needs assistance Apple, “announced the department of Justice. “From the legal point of view not ‘say that the battle is over,” says the New York Times, however, Esha Bhandari, lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), stressing that the government could refuse to share discoveries with Apple, deciding that the information is “top secret.”
it ‘s another twist, perhaps the most sensational, in the standoff that opposes the government of United States to Apple regarding the iPhone privacy and investigation of terrorist attacks or other crimes. The most burning issue was what concerned the iPhone used by the two terrorists who did the massacre in San Bernardino, California, in December last year. Already in recent days, on the eve of a hearing in a California court, where the Department of Justice had to support the request of the FBI – that is, the injunction Apple to provide a key or “gateway” to overcome the defenses of encrypted code of the iPhone – suddenly the same department had asked to cancel the hearing. Sensational was the explanation behind the request, received by the court. The Justice Department, which does employ even the FBI as the judicial police, would find “a way to get in the iPhone Syed Farook,” the author of the massacre of San Bernardino. Without the need for aid by Apple engineers.
The impossible has now become reality? For months the clash between the Obama administration and the chief executive of Apple, Tim Cook, it was based on this assumption shared: the next-generation iPhone – like the one used by the terrorists of San Bernardino – would be impenetrable in the present configuration, without the ‘approval of the owner. Among the safety devices mentioned is the self-destruction of the data after a series of failed attempts to dial the pin. Therefore the investigators dealing with the San Bernardino massacre had asked Apple to write his engineers a new software code, described in simple terms as a “back door”, an emergency access to steal data behind the iPhone mandate of the judge. Cook had opposed a categorical denial, threatening to take the matter of appeal to appeal to the Supreme Court. The story had split the country in two. And now the message that comes from the Justice Department, the fore all: there is no more need for Apple, FBI experts would find a way to make them yourself. This not only raises the debate about privacy, its rules and its protection, but it can deal a significant blow to the image of Apple. The only thing so far no one had questioned it was just total impenetrability of Apple products. That Cook was not only a battle of ethical and legal principles but also (perhaps above all) a marketing battle to affirm in front of its global customers the message “Are you sure, no one can spy on you, Apple is on your side.” Now that message seems less credible. And the news had arrived, in anticipation, the day of the presentation of the new Apple products, during which Cook was back on the issue of security and the confrontation with the FBI.
The turning point in a document delivered by the lawyers of the Justice department to the federal judge Sheri Pym district court of California, where he cites an “external person” (thus neither Apple nor FBI) that would have shown that there is a way to unlock access to iPhone Syed Farook. “We need to run tests – we read in the document presented to the court by the government – and by demonstrating its effectiveness we will not need the assistance of Apple.” The Justice Department had promised experiment updates by April 5, but the answer, of course, came much earlier.
For its part, Apple had made it known through one of his not to be legal knowledge of the techniques that the FBI intended to use for the iPhone’s release and did not know what solution he found the government. At the same time, the Cupertino company was expected that if the investigation had continued on this path, the authorities would share information about the iPhone’s critical.
Just a few days ago Edward Snowden had declared that ‘ FBI did not need Apple’s engineers to unlock the iPhone Syed Farook. The former analyst at the National Security Agency – author of the sensational revelation of secret electronic surveillance program set up by the government agency at the expense of US citizens and the rest of the world – also had indicates the method can be used.
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