A Battle Is Brewing and the Outcome Could Affect Your iPhone's Security Natasha Noman - Tech.Mic
go to original February 18, 2016

Apple vs. the FBI Explained (Mashable)

Apple is bracing itself for the fight of the century.

Magistrate Judge Sheri Pym of Federal District Court for the District of Central California has ordered the tech company to help the Federal Bureau of Investigation hack into the iPhone of San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook. But Apple CEO Tim Cook announced in an open letter that he had zero intentions of complying with the order.

Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, carried out an attack on a holiday party for Farook's colleagues on Dec. 2 in San Bernardino, California, killing 14 and injuring 22.

The FBI seeks software that would bypass an iPhone's feature that erases the phone's contents after 10 failed attempts at the password; the software would allow the federal agency to test an unlimited number of password combinations until it's successful. Without Farook's password, all the data on the phone remains encrypted.

...Apple said complying with the order would create a dangerous precedent and essentially equip the government with "the equivalent of a master key," which would allow it to access millions of people's data. But Cook alluded he is skeptical that the FBI would only use the supposed software or the precedent the court order would set only once.

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Related: Tim Cook Lays Out Why We Can't Let the Government Erode Our Privacy, Even a Little (Mic)

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