Although the judge instructed Apple to create the software for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, she said it could be loaded onto the phone at an Apple facility.
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While the judge on the case says the government is only asking for help unlocking one, single iPhone, Apple says the case is much bigger than that and sets a risky precedent.
Speaking at a campaign rally, Mr Trump said: “Boycott Apple until such time as they give that information”.
Senior Apple executives also spoke to some media outlets on the condition of anonymity on Friday, revealing it provided four alternatives to access data from the iPhone but one of the encouraging options was ruled out because the county reset Farook’s iCloud account password, The Los Angeles Times reported.
Reuters is reporting that the DOJ has filed a motion that would legally compel Apple to obey a court order that the company refused to comply with this week.
“The order does not, as Apple’s public statement alleges, require Apple to create or provide a “back door” to every iPhone”, said the motion, which was filed in a federal court in California. They were trying to access the terrorist’s data backup for possible clues.
Apple engineers would have tried to find a known Wi-Fi network that the suspect had utilized.
The protests organized by the Internet rights group Fight for the Future are scheduled to occur Tuesday outside Apple stores in the U.S., the U.K., Hong Kong and Germany.
The U.S. protests will be in cities scattered across more than 20 states, including in Philadelphia, Cherry Hill, New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Washington, where protesters plan to express their discontent outside the FBI’s headquarters.
The FBI wants Apple to disable a security feature of the iPhone that allows an unlimited number of passcodes to be entered without the phone being wiped, as would otherwise happen, Cope said. Chinese consumers spent $59 billion on Apple products in the last fiscal year.
Apple has become the most valuable company in the world partly because of its products that are extremely secured.
And if it cooperates with one government, the thinking goes, it will have to cooperate with all of them.
However, Apple’s Chief Executive Officer, Tim Cook has vowed to fight the court order.
For Apple, cooperating with the US government now could quickly lead to murkier situations internationally. “They have asked us to build a backdoor to the iPhone”. “It’s even more negative in places where there are fewer freedoms”.
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“That’s the way our system of laws work”, Kelly told radio host John Catsimatidis on AM 970 NY on Sunday.
