Thursday, February 18, 2016

Apple in big trouble with the FBI on terror encrypted mobile – Swedish Dagbladet

Apple CEO Tim Cook. Photo: Richard Drew / TT News Agency

NEW YORK. In early December was shot 14 people to death at a service center in San Bernardino, southern California. The two terrorists Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik killed themselves later in a shootout with police.

A few months later, Farooks jobs mobile, the iPhone, at the center of a legal battle between the maker Apple and the US Federal police FBI, which is investigating the terrorist attack.

the police lack the code to your phone. The latest software in your phone has a feature that erases the contents after ten failed attempts to guess the correct code.

When this became clear to the FBI turned to the police to Apple to get access to a program that unlocks the delete function and thus can allow the police to test how many codes at any time until you find the right.

But Apple refused to cooperate. Police went to court to get a decision issued forcing Apple to help. The decision of the judge, Sheri Plume, provides that the technology giant disconnect the auto-delete feature on Farooks jobs mobile, owned by the centers where mass murder was committed and where Farook was working.



Tashfeen Malik, left, and Syed Farook photographed at an airport before the attack in San Bernardino in December 2015. Photo TT

But now take Apple battle against the judge’s decision. In a statement on Apple’s website on Wednesday morning, writes CEO Tim Cook to the software that the police are asking pose a potential security threat to all users of the iPhone.

“In the wrong hands that have this software – which does not exist today – potential to unlock the iPhone any time that someone has physical access to. The FBI can choose to use other words to describe this tool, but was so sure: to make a version of iOS that circumvent security in this way would no doubt open a back door, “wrote Cook.

Apple boss also write that even though the FBI claims that the software would only be used in the present case, there is no guarantee of that.

Apple is now trying to get a judicial decision annulling the judge’s orders .

Exactly what the FBI expects to find in Farooks jobs mobile is not known, but interest in it is increasing by the fact that he and his partner made an effort to destroy their private mobiles and mounted even remove a hard drive from as a home computer before they prepared the attack in December. Police have not been able to recreate what was on the handsets and the hard drive has not been found.

It is far from the first time as the US technology giants collide with various monitoring and police in USA. On several occasions, companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Apple has rejected the idea that authorities provide a backdoor into their systems to monitor suspected terrorists. The extent to which such opportunities still exist is unclear.

In conjunction with the whistle-blower Edward Snow Dens revealing 2013 if intelligence NSA’s extensive reconnaissance claimed by several US technology companies that did not cooperate with the NSA, for fear of being accused of facilitate spying on their own customers.

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