Thursday, April 7, 2016

FBI: “We can unlock only the older generation iPhone” – The Republic

NEW YORK – The Department of Justice is only able to unlock some of the older generation iPhone. Jamey Comey, FBI number one, it intervenes for the first time on the Apple smartphone release after the authorities have managed to get through the help of an external company, of San Bernardino in the iPhone killer.

“we have a tool that works only on a small part of the iPhone” is not on the newest models from the iPhone 5 on, Comey said, noting that “the FBI is good at keeping secrets. of the people from whom we took” the tool to unlock the iPhone “I know many things and are confident we are very good at protecting what they know.”

“We have a tool that works with a limited number of phones” Comey said, adding that the technique used to unlock the phone Rizwan Syed Farook, responsible for the massacre of Ssan Bernardino, California, which killed 14 people, does not work on the iPhone 6 and 6s, nor about 5s.

at the end in March, the US department of Justice has announced that opens the terrorist smartphone with the help of a third party not identified, after Apple’s refusal to cooperate. The method used to unlock the phone by Farook was revealed only to two senators, Dianne Feinstein and Richard Burr, who are working on a bill on the much criticized encryption, because it would force companies to cooperate with the demands of the justice department. The White House will not support publicly the bill.

A few days ago, the FBI decided to help local authorities with two Apple devices to a case of double murder in Arkansas, opening a new front of confrontation with the Cupertino company, and with the defenders of user data. This is the telephone and iPod of two boys, Hunter Drexler, 18, and Justin Staton, 15, accused of the murder of the latter’s grandparents, Robert and Patricia Codgell, murdered in their homes.

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