Farook was assigned the phone by the county health department for which he worked, prosecutors said in a court filing on Tuesday.
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Feland said the move could build momentum for the upcoming release of the iPhone 7.
Meanwhile, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted this afternoon, saying, “We stand with @tim_cook and Apple (and thank him for his leadership)!” before linking to Cook’s defiant statement posted on Apple’s website yesterday.
“We condemn terrorism and have total solidarity with victims of terror”. However, we will continue to fight aggressively against requirements for companies to weaken the security of their systems. “Once this master key is created, governments around the world will surely demand that Apple undermine the security of their citizens as well”, the foundation said in a statement. Google has publicly supported Apple’s position.
Facebook and Twitter sided with Apple in the public spat with the Obama administration over its refusal to help the Federal Bureau of Investigation break into the iPhone of San Bernardino, Calif., shooter Syed Rizwan Farook. Law enforcement officials believe the phone could contain valuable intelligence about the attack.
“We oppose this order, which has implications far beyond the legal case at hand”. 24 hours earlier, it was Google backing up Apple over the government’s overreach – albeit with less decisive language – while WhatsApp co-founder and CEO Jan Koum voiced his support for Apple CEO Tim Cook on Facebook yesterday.
“Apple does provide “reasonable assistance” to law enforcement all the time”, says Jeff Fischbach, a forensic technologist who specializes in retrieving data from devices for use in court.
McAfee called the federal order “a disarmament of our already ancient cybersecurity and cyberdefense systems” and said he and his team could decrypt the information on the iPhone in three weeks, eliminating the need for Apple to create a so-called back door. Mike Serago, 21, a senior information sciences and technology major at Penn State Berks, said he understands the government position on gaining access to the information on the smartphone of a terrorist. RGS companies remain committed to providing law enforcement with the help it needs while protecting the security of their customers and their customers’ information. The federal government did everything right – got the court order. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance said today his office has 175 iPhones involved in criminal cases that can not be broken into due to the device’s strong encryption.
“They’re basically making a big push on privacy, and it benefits them financially”, Alvaro Bedoya, executive director of the Center on Privacy and Technology at Georgetown University Law Center, said of the challenge. The opinion was later withdrawn so the full court could rehear the case, but that rehearing was canceled and the appeal declared moot after the government revised its export controls.
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Apple’s Cook, however, declared the demand would create what amounts to a “backdoor” in Apple’s encryption software. “If the government can use the All Writs Act to make it easier to unlock your iPhone, it would have the power to reach into anyone’s device to capture their data”, he wrote in the open letter. Chen notably criticized Cook a year ago for the “disdain” he had shown law enforcement when he refused to unlock a different iPhone. Two fellows at the Brookings Institution criticized that stance Thursday, writing that Apple’s “self-presentation as crusading on behalf of the privacy of its customers is largely self-congratulatory nonsense”. Who knows what’s in that safe? “I think it’s going to be a positive for them”.
