A federal court in the United Kingdom ordered Apple to help the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI, for its acronym in English) to “hack” the iPhone utilizing Rizwan Syed Farook, who with his wife Tashfeen Malik, killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California.
The aim is to discover if there were accomplices of the couple and find possible links to the self-styled Islamic State and other radical Islamist groups.
However, Apple has resisted do so now ordered justice.
And its CEO, Tim Cook, he came to write to its customers late Tuesday on the website of the company that this is a “overreaching US government. “, and asked to open a public debate on the issue.
But why Apple is opposed to work?
The owner of the phone that interests the FBI opened fire at a care center for the disabled on December 2 last killing 14 people in what has been described as an attack Islamist.
Cook said Apple has “no sympathy for terrorists.”
the head of the software giant, however, complain that what is really asking the judge Sheri Pym District Court in Los Angeles is build a “back door” to access any iPhone.
This, he says, would jeopardize the confidentiality of the information handled by all users.
the executive warned that if this software fall “into the wrong hands” would unlock all iPhone.
He added that Apple does not you can ensure that the FBI would not use this system for other cases despite considering, in this case, that the intentions of this agency US security are good.
Encryption
Since September 2014, all Apple devices data, such as text messages and photographs are automatically encrypted.
that means a four-digit code is required to access the data. If a wrong code is entered 10 times, the system will erase all data.
no one, including Apple, has access to this information, a step that the company and other technology taken after Edward Snowden’s revelations about clandestine program of US electronic surveillance.
the judge, however, Apple asks two things.
First, to allow FBI investigators can enter unlimited passwords to unlock the cell of Farook.
second, they can implement different combinations of codes quickly 10,000 in total, which currently take more than five years to make.
on its website, Apple says its users that “for those devices with iOS 8 or later [Farook had an iPhone with iOS 9] Apple iOS not extract data in response to a court order because the information to be extracted is protected by an encryption key linked to user code that Apple has no “.
Other smartphone as those using Google Android, used similar encryption technology into their devices.
Cold Case
“The FBI is proposing an unprecedented use of the All Writs Act 1789 to justify an expansion of its authority,” said Cook, adding that “the implications are chilling” .
“If the government can use this law to make it easier to unlock an iPhone, would also be able to enter any device to capture your data “, as, in his view, would” extend this violation of privacy “practically any citizen.
” We oppose the request FBI with our greatest respect for American democracy and love for our country. We believe it is in the interest of all of us to give a step back and consider the implications, “he said.
in any case, Apple has not publicly responded to the demand for justice US.
However, a source close to the prosecution told the BBC that Apple probably will use this measure, so the case will probably remain open.
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