“The phone is owned by the government”.
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Now Mr Trump, the outspoken businessman and Presidential candidate, has backed a boycott of the Cupertino firm.
Breaking into the iPhone now is impossible after the Federal Bureau of Investigation attempted to crack it and turning to a backdoor seems to be the only way to do it. Furthermore, Apple claims that it never implied that creating such software isn’t impossible, but the company actually warns that building could put the privacy of all iPhone users across the world at risk.
The Department of Justice filed another motion in court on Friday after Apple’s chief executive, Tim Cook, said Apple would continue to refuse the order, the BBC reported.
In a new motion Friday, federal prosecutors say the company has chosen to repudiate a judge’s order instead of following it.
Apple has clashed with the Justice Department (DoJ) over a court order forcing the company to help break the encryption on one of its phones. “If Apple doesn’t give info to authorities on the terrorists I’ll only be using Samsung until they give info”, he tweeted Friday.
“Rather than assist the effort to fully investigate a deadly terrorist attack …”
He said the order would require Apple to create software to circumvent the phone’s security system, producing a key that could be used by hackers to steal data from anyone’s iPhone.
The legal filing portrays the dispute as a battle between the FBI’s need to know communications between terrorists who killed 14 people and injured 22 others and the desire of a company to protect its reputation.
“While we believe the FBI’s intentions are good, it would be wrong for the government to force us to build a backdoor into our products”.
The Justice Department made explicit Friday that Apple could retain custody of the software at all times. “I think it’s going to be a positive for them”. The U.S. has said the attacks were partly inspired by the Islamic State terror group.
Specifically, the government wants Apple to bypass a self-destruct feature that erases the phone’s data after too many unsuccessful attempts to guess the passcode.
It essentially argues that Mr Cook’s stance – and indeed the stance of the other technology companies that support him – is motivated by business, not ethics.
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The House Energy and Commerce Committee on Friday invited Cook and FBI Director James Comey to appear before it to discuss encryption technologies and issues of privacy and national security, asking both to tell Americans how they plan to move forward.
