Apple: iPhone Open set a dangerous precedent – Voice of America

The FBI has demanded that Apple believes software to open the iPhone used by one of the terrorists in San Bernardino, California, in the attack on December 2.

Apple says to open an iPhone would endanger the security of hundreds of millions of users of his company’s products.

Voice of America – Editorial

                     01/03/2016
                 

The technology giant Apple plans to tell a panel of Congress States that a requirement of law enforcement authorities to open an iPhone “set a dangerous precedent for government intrusion”.

the authorities want to open an iPhone used by one of the terrorists of San Bernardino, California, that killed 14 people.

in a preview of his testimony, the general counsel for Apple, Bruce Sewell, said making the necessary software to open the phone used by Syed Rizwan Farook weaken the security of hundreds of millions of other Apple devices used by the company’s customers worldwide.

“Making the software tool not only affect an iPhone,” says Sewell. “It would weaken the security of all of them … we can all agree that this is not about access to only one iPhone,” he adds.

The FBI, the chief US law enforcement agency, it has demanded that Apple create a software that enables researchers to check the phone used by Farook, an American Muslim, was in contact with others about the deadly attack on December 2 that held with his Pakistani wife, Tashfeen Malik. Both were killed hours later in a shootout with police.

A court in California ordered Apple to meet demand, but the outcome is uncertain, pending the appeal of Apple.

on Monday in New York, a court ruled that the Justice Department can not force Apple to comply. A spokesman expressed disappointment being the ruling and said it plans to appeal.

A US survey It shows that most Americans favor the government’s position in the dispute.

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