That didn’t take long.
News is breaking that the US Justice Department has joined the fight to force Apple to help the FBI break into an iPhone belonging to San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook who, along with his wife, killed 14 people in December:
“Rather than assist the effort to fully investigate a deadly terrorist attack by obeying this court’s [previous order], Apple has responded by publicly repudiating that order,” prosecutors wrote in a new filing today.
To be clear, what both the FBI and DOJ are after is Apple’s assistance in creating a custom version of iOS that allows them to remove the normal 1 hour delay between multiple PIN attempts along with removing the possibility that device will erase itself after multiple PIN attempts. This will then allow the FBI to try every possible 4-digit PIN combination in order to brute-force entry into the device and retrieve the info that they want. The tech world has backed Apple in saying no to this request as it would be a slippery slope. Clearly the US Government doesn’t care about that, and clearly wants this to happen no matter what. .
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US DOJ Joins FBI In Attempt To Force Apple To Crack iPhone
That didn’t take long.
News is breaking that the US Justice Department has joined the fight to force Apple to help the FBI break into an iPhone belonging to San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook who, along with his wife, killed 14 people in December:
“Rather than assist the effort to fully investigate a deadly terrorist attack by obeying this court’s [previous order], Apple has responded by publicly repudiating that order,” prosecutors wrote in a new filing today.
To be clear, what both the FBI and DOJ are after is Apple’s assistance in creating a custom version of iOS that allows them to remove the normal 1 hour delay between multiple PIN attempts along with removing the possibility that device will erase itself after multiple PIN attempts. This will then allow the FBI to try every possible 4-digit PIN combination in order to brute-force entry into the device and retrieve the info that they want. The tech world has backed Apple in saying no to this request as it would be a slippery slope. Clearly the US Government doesn’t care about that, and clearly wants this to happen no matter what. .
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