A US judge has demanded that Apple helps the FBI to access the encrypted contents of the cell phone of one of the perpetrators of the attack of San Bernardino, which had killed 14 people early December in California, a tightly contested decision the computer giant.
“Apple will allow research on a cell phone” (5C iPhone), and “providing reasonable technical assistance to help law enforcement officers to obtain access to the data on the device, “wrote the California judge Sheri Pym in its decision Tuesday.
in his judgment, it requires particular Apple software provide a usable only on this specific device and allowing investigators to bypass the automatic erasure of data which normally comes after a number of unsuccessful attempts to guess the unlock password.
This request is “unprecedented” and “threatens security “Apple customers, has protested his boss Tim Cook in a long letter posted on the company’s website.
in recent months, US authorities require a more and most pressing technological aid groups in the fight against the jihadists that encrypt increasing their messages, but industry, stung by the scandal of the NSA and concerned about their image among the public, are not enthusiastic the idea of lowering the encryption level.
“We are against this decision which has implications far beyond the legal framework of this case,” he wrote.
” customers expect from Apple and other technology companies to do everything in their power to protect their personal information “and that is why the group uses encryption, justifies the boss of the Apple brand.
“When the FBI asked for data that we had in our possession, we have provided them,” he says.
“But the US government now asks us something we do not have and something we consider too dangerous to be created. They asked us to design a roundabout way of getting into the iPhone “he added.
” The government suggests that this tool could only be used once, “says Tim Cook. “But this is simply not true. Once created, the technique could be used to infinity on all types of devices.”
“In the end, we fear that this request put undermine the freedoms that our government is supposed to protect, “he said.
the federal police (FBI) and the US intelligence agencies are campaigning for several months for manufacturers of smartphones and other objects electronic leave a possibility of access to the contents of these objects in case of a court order.
the major technology groups offer indeed increasingly inviolable products and applications, which only the user holds the key and rejected to date requests for access to encrypted data in the context of criminal investigations.
encryption has become for businesses commercial argument after the revelations of Edward Snowden on extent of the wiretapping of American security Agency (NSA).
in the case of San Bernardino, the FBI Director James Comey, was still lamented last week that two months after the tragedy, “there is always a phone murderers that we have not managed to open.”
“We have made a solemn commitment to the victims and their families that we spare no effort and we will gather as much information and evidence as possible “, said for his part the federal prosecutor of central California Eileen Decker.
02.17.2016 12:29:33 – San Francisco (AFP) – AFP © 2016
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