Slaughter of San Bernardino, Apple is opposed to forcing the iPhone attacker – BBC

the challenge

Milan , February 17, 2016 – 10:12

Apple opposes the decision of the federal judge who ordered Sheri Pym in Cupertino to force the encrypted code dell’iPhone5 dell ‘ bomber of San Bernardino, Syed Farook, who last December killed fourteen people. As we read in a long letter published on the website of the company, and signed by CEO Tim Cook, fulfill the request would set a “dangerous precedent.”

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Protected content and impenetrable

The judge ordered to Apple to collaborate with the FBI to access the content of the attacker’s phone, action by the Federal Bureau which was made necessary because the smartphone content Syed Farook are protected by a password and the risk is that all data is automatically destroyed by the security software if it activates the “auto-erase” function in case of ten attempts of forcing the system. The position of Cupertino was clear. “The decision to oppose this order is not something I do not take lightly,” wrote Cook. “However, we believe to have to make our voices heard in the face of what we see as excessive by the American government.”

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A new iOS ad hoc

And so we arrive the wall against the wall now, with the attention of the entire audience moved by the fact that we speak of a massacre that killed 14 people in a center for disabled people. But the issue goes beyond the individual case. “Now the US government has asked us something that simply does not have, and which we consider too dangerous to create. They asked for a version of iOS that makes it possible to circumvent the security of your phone by creating a de facto secondary access to the iPhone, “he writes Cook referring to a route of entry to the smartphone data that it passes the safety locks set by the user. “In the wrong hands, this software would have the potential to unlock any iPhone physically possess someone. And while the government may argue that its use would be limited to this case, there is no way to ensure such control. “

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The All Wrists Act

The Director of ‘ fbi, James Comey, said that investigators are looking for evidence of accomplices and of links with Islamic fundamentalism regarding the massacre in San Bernardino. Ties that can be hidden in communications that took place before the massacre and who reside in the phone Farook. A note iPhone5. The request of the court – which in fact is already a victory for the Justice Department in the “fight” with the Silicon Valley of privacy and national security – is based on the All Wrists Act, a law of 1789 which effectively provides a magistrates absolute power over ordinances. “The government has not been able to access the encrypted content, and Apple is the only one to have the technical capabilities to assist the investigation, but declined to voluntarily provide it.” Cook attacks precisely 227 years old on the act: “If the government can use the law to make it easier to unlock your iPhone, then it has the power to enter the phone each to capture sensitive data.”

Possible boomerang effect

The Call the NSA scandal is clear, as is the fact that Apple is fighting a trade battle: give in on the point of the iPhone’s security means fail in her own company mission which guarantees the best product for your customer. It’s the same speech called Error 53, the smartphone that locks in case of repairs ‘unauthorized’. But this time Cupertino threatens the boomerang effect. Because there is half the national security and killed American citizens. “We are challenging the FBI with the utmost respect for American democracy and love for our country,” writes Cook in what is perhaps one of the most difficult letters of his post-Jobs Administration. “While we believe the FBI’s intentions are the best, but we fear that this request would undermine the freedoms that our government intends to be protecting.”

February 17, 2016 (edited February 17, 2016 | 12:46)

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