Apple yesterday refused to obey an order from the FBI to create a tool that allows them to decrypt a terrorist who used a smartphone in December
the exanalista CIA Edward Snowden and CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai, have defended Apple to the US government and the FBI, which caused a stir after yesterday Apple’s refusal to obey the court order requiring the company to unlock the iPhone used by one of the authors of the shooting December in San Bernardino (California).
Snowden, who is currently in asylum in Russia, defended Wednesday in his Twitter account Apple right to refuse what you ask the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to ensure that “the FBI is creating a world in which citizens rely on Apple to defend their rights, and not vice versa.”
in addition, the exanalista that exposed their filtracionesel reach of massive spying programs of the National Security Agency (NSA, for its acronym in English) US branded the battle of being “the most important technology event in a decade “.
Soon after, the CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai, tweeted that ” force companies to hack could compromise the privacy of users. “
” we build safe products to protect information and give law enforcement access to data based on legal orders. But that’s very different from requiring companies to enable hacking devices and data. it could be a dangerous precedent, “said the manager.
What doth Justice
According to the order issued by judge Sheri Pym, Apple shall provide the FBI of “reasonable support” to enter the mobile, which is off the security system that eliminates phone data if the correct code is entered after ten attempts. What they seek is a tool that allows them to make more attempts without the fear that the phone operating system for security erase its contents.
But the CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, said in a letter to customers of the company’s suggestion that the US government created the tool to unlock iPhone would be used only once “is not true”.
“once created, the technique could be used over and over time in many devices, “said Cook, adding that would be the equivalent of” a master key able to open hundreds of millions of locks, from restaurants and shops to homes. “
” We are opposed to that order , which has implications beyond the legal case in question, “said Cook.
” it is not a back door “
Meanwhile, the White House argued that the order will only impact on that phone, and not he is asking the company to “redesign” their products.
the Department of Justice and the FBI “are not asking Apple to redesign or create a new ‘backdoor ‘one of their products, “he said Wednesday at his daily briefing the spokesman for the White House, Josh Earnest.
the phone iPhone to the FBI wants access was operated by Syed Farook, one the perpetrators of the massacre, although it is owned by his employer, the county government of San Bernardino, which has already given its consent for registration.
the device was found in the vehicle in which Farook , a US citizen, and his Pakistani wife, Tashfeen Malik, suspected supporters of jihadist group Islamic State (EI), fleeing from the police when they were killed.
EFE
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