A group of people waiting to buy the iPhone6 Berlin. / HANNIBAL Hanschke (REUTERS)
The brand new iPhone 6, recently released, is the first smart phone spy proof. An algorithm in the operating system means that only the user has access to protected content, which Apple could not deliver information or even by court order.
“If you’re not the customer, you are the product” a maximum of Jan Koum, founder of the mobile messaging application WhatsApp to defend the privacy of users becomes current. Apple has added to iOS this principle 8, the operating system that comes standard on the new models of iPhone, 6 and 6 Plus.
Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, and breaks the general axiom Internet. He explained in a letter included in the changes in its privacy policy: “Unlike our competitors, Apple is not going to go over your password and therefore can not access that data. Technically, we can no longer assume the government requests for data capture devices that they own, provided they are installed iOS8. ” There will be no possibility, therefore, that Apple will collaborate with the National Security Agency (NSA) in case you are required
Apple devices will be a unique way to decrypt protected content.: the key that gives access to the user identity. So far, only @ me.com mail, the account offered to customers, was this dynamic. With the iOS function 8 is extended to messages (SMS application that binds both, WhatsApp … but only between Apple devices), calendars, contacts and photos.
The new system puts the responsibility end for each individual customer. Before the update, Apple could decipher keys, passwords and lock codes receivership request. Now you can no longer do so and refer the requests to the owners of the phones.
June 6, 2013, the exanalista NSA Edward Snowden revealed the existence of secret surveillance program PRISM, which authorized NSA and the FBI to access the data servers of major Internet companies in the USA, including Apple, Microsoft, Facebook or Google.
Jaime Blasco, director of the security company AlienVault explains the significance of the change: “Before iOS8 data already encrypted, but Apple had a master key to skip it. Should the NSA, the FBI or the police had asked him, they agreed. But that key does not exist. It can only be accessed with the key of the owner or his thumbprint. “
While Apple insists that violate encrypting your mobile take more than five years, Blasco believes existing technology to achieve much less. “I am sure that the authorities have algorithms to decipher.”
Speaking to The Washington Post, Ronald T. Hosko, research exresponsable FBI estimates that Apple’s initiative will have consequences, and insists that cooperation with the authorities is key to solving and preventing crimes. The director of the agency, James B. Comey said at a Thursday press conference concern about this type of movement, considering that terrorists and criminals will use iPhone6 to hide data. “The way to avoid this is to have our help,” said three markets.
Apple, which has only comments, not just think about the USA, but also in China, Brazil and Germany with key customers especially concerned for their safety.
Google, timid and limited, has joined the spontaneous consumer protection. The private data of the user will only ever using Android L, its new operating system, introduced in June and will be available later this year.
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