Police found the phone inside the vehicle that Farook, an American citizen, and his Pakistani wife, both alleged supporters of the Islamic State, were using to flee police when they were shot dead. During an interview with the FOX Business Network’s Trish Regan, McAfee & Associates founder John McAfee said there’s a big misunderstanding regarding what the Federal Bureau of Investigation actually wants from Apple.
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A federal court in the Central District of California on Tuesday issued an order compelling Apple to, among other things, create a new firmware that would allow investigators to hack into the phone. “They have asked us to build a backdoor to the iPhone”.
“Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s embattled CEO, wrote the company “[stood] with Tim Cook and Apple” and thanked “him for his leadership”, before linking to Cook’s letter. “No, we have to open it”, Trump told Fox and Friends on Wednesday.
The Justice Department filed court papers asking for Apple to load software on to the phone to bypass a self-destruct feature that erases all data after 10 failed attempts to guess the passcode.
Immediately after the news broke on Friday, the price of Apple shares did not show signs of reacting to the injunction, first trading down by 0.1 percent and then hovering around zero. Although Facebook reinforced that it does comply with lawful requests from authorities, “we will continue to fight aggressively against requirements for companies to weaken the security of their systems”.
“No matter how you slice this pie, if the government succeeds in getting this back door, it will eventually get a back door into all encryption, and our world, as we know it, is over”, McAfee says.
“We oppose this order, which has implications far beyond the legal case at hand”, Cook added. “And ultimately, we fear that this demand would undermine the very freedoms and liberty our government is meant to protect”, Cook wrote. Ohio Gov. John Kasich has also sided with the government.
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The phone under scrutiny is believed to have belonged to Syed Rizwan Farook, one of the deceased suspect in the San Bernardino attack.
