Monday, September 29, 2014

FBI against Apple: “The iPhone 6 is inviolable” – The Messenger

L ‘iPhone 6, Apple’s new supermodel arrived just a few days ago in Italy, it would be “inviolable”. iPhone 6 has a remarkable quality for the customers but it is also a problem for those who work for national security and beyond. Beginning with the FBI. Who is angry with Apple directly but also with Google, which in terms of users’ privacy has no intention of being left behind and has already announced that the next version of Android will be inviolable as Ios8. A real case made the front page of the New York Times.



 A do not take it at all well was in fact the head of the FBI James Comey. Quest ‘last lashed out at the two giants to have made it more difficult to decrypt the new smartphone, protected by a complicated and secret algorithm staff, preventing even the police to have access to. In the case of an order from the judge, the code could be broken, although this may take more than five years to find the combination of a six-character alphanumeric code with lowercase letters and numbers.

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 For the first time a senior government official openly criticizes the decision of Apple and Google. The two companies announced last week that with the new operating system iOS 8, completed mostly from shortly after the initial problems, including smartphones and tablets are placed under the protection of personal codes that can not be bypassed even by the manufacturer.

Inviolable then. According to police, the possibility of having personal data such as photos, messages, emails, attachments, contacts, are essential to solve a series of crimes: murder, child pornography, in an attempt to terrorist attacks. “There will come a day that will be of tremendous importance to the citizens and that is the possibility of gaining access to smartphones or other devices,” said Comey.
             
             
                         
         

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