It may be the end of a legal battle between the US authorities and the Apple brand. Investigators were able to unlock without using Apple’s iPhone one of the authors of the attack in San Bernardino, California, ending a media tussle several weeks now. The government has “successfully accessed the data stored on the iPhone (Syed) Farook and therefore no longer needs the Apple Support,” a document sent to Justice Monday by US authorities.
they are seeking the annulment of the court order of February 16, with whom they had tried to force Apple to help investigators to hack the phone. “Our decision to terminate the procedure is based only on the fact that with the recent assistance of a third party, we are now able to unlock the iPhone without compromising the information in the phone,” said Eileen Decker, attorney Federal of central California, in a statement.
the contents remain intact
the identity of the third party and the method used were not disclosed. The government had already opened the door to a possible resolution of the case by announcing last week to be on the trail of a method proposed by third parties and may unlock the device. Tests have since ensured that phone content would remain intact, said an FBI official, David Bowdich. “The full operation of the phone and measures of investigations that follow are continuing.”
“From the beginning, we opposed the FBI requirements for Apple builds a backdoor (to enter) in the iPhone, because we thought it was a mistake and that it would create a dangerous precedent, “Apple responded in a statement. With Monday’s decision by the government “none of this happened,” said Apple, but “this case should never have been opened.” The group also believes that it “raised issues that deserve a national conversation about our civil liberties, our collective security and the protection of privacy”.
Security hole in iPhone
If Monday’s announcement that avoids the legal battle on the iPhone San Bernardino does drags on, with remedies that were likely to take years and go back to the Supreme Court, it does not solve in fact the question of the balance between public safety and protection of privacy. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, an association defending the rights of Internet users, has thus welcomed Monday “the Justice Department retired bat in his dangerous and unconstitutional attempt to force Apple to subvert the security of its operating system iOS “.
however, it considers that this does not end the debate on the need to encrypt the contents of smartphones to protect their users. Moreover, “this new method to access the phone raises questions about the apparent use by the government of vulnerabilities in security in iOS,” added EFF, wondering if Apple will be well informed in order to repair these faults.
A secret way to access the iPhone
the expert Robert Enderle doubt technologies to share the benefits that the phone’s content is likely to bring to the investigation compensate the damage. It argues in particular that the FBI has revealed the existence of a medium hitherto secret access to the iPhone, which could potentially be used for intelligence, and exposed users to “a higher risk of pirated. ” Even if he had stressed in the past that the phone Syed Farook, iPhone 5c, was much less secure than newer versions of the device, Robert Enderle warned that this could also affect Apple, because “the leaders ( of companies), politicians, artists and other users for the iPhone are likely to consider switching to another “device.
Washington trying since mid-February to force Apple to help unlock iPhone Syed Farook, author with his wife of Malik Tashfeen the attack in San Bernardino that killed 14 2 December 2015, with the hope to discover information on the organization of attack. Apple, who refused, received the support of security experts, advocates of civil rights and other giants of the tech sector as Google, Facebook or Microsoft.
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