Apple challenges 'chilling' demand to decrypt San Bernadino shooter's iPhone
Apple has hit back after a US federal magistrate ordered the company to help the FBI unlock the iPhone of one of the San Bernadino shooters, with chief executive Tim Cook describing the demand as “chilling”.
The court order focuses on Apple’s security feature that slows down anyone trying to use “brute force” to gain access to an iPhone by guessing its passcode. In a letter published on the company’s website, Cook responded saying Apple would oppose the order and calling for public debate.
“The United States government has demanded that Apple take an unprecedented step which threatens the security of our customers. We oppose this order, which has implications far beyond the legal case at hand,” he wrote.
“Up to this point, we have done everything that is both within our power and within the law to help them. But now the US government has asked us for something we simply do not have, and something we consider too dangerous to create. They have asked us to build a backdoor to the iPhone,” he wrote.
“Specifically, the FBI wants us to make a new version of the iPhone operating system, circumventing several important security features, and install it on an iPhone recovered during the investigation.”
“While we believe the FBI’s intentions are good, it would be wrong for the government to force us to build a backdoor into our products. And ultimately, we fear that this demand would undermine the very freedoms and liberty our government is meant to protect.”
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/apple-challenges-chilling-demand-to-decrypt-san-bernadino-shooters-iphone/ar-BBpBYLC?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=iehp
I'm thinking that there is really not much in the phone that could harm us as much as the FBI is pissed that their crack team o experts can't crack the code.
I say good for Apple.
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