Donald Trump demands that Apple decrypt the phones of his alleged attackers

The 2024 US presidential election was close to taking a dramatic turn due to bothassassination attempts against Donald Trumpin recent weeks. The first took place during his meeting in Pennsylvania in July and the second at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach in mid-September. The former President of the United States escaped almost unscathed, but intends to help the FBI understand the actions of suspects Thomas Matthew Crooks and Ryan Wesley Routh.He wants Apple to intervene to access the encrypted content of the two individuals' smartphones.

Donald Trump wants Apple to decrypt the iPhones of suspects in his assassination attempts

Donald Trump revealed this Wednesday that the FBI was unable to extract all the information from the phones belonging to the two suspects arrested following the assassination attempts. Former US President Explains Thomas Matthew Crooks Owned«three potentially foreign applications»on his smartphone, while Ryan Wesley Routhhas six inaccessible iPhones.

Donald Trump wants federal agents and the Apple brand to work together to shed light on the affair. “They need to get Apple to open the foreign apps and also open the second madman's six phones», Proclaims Donald Trump this Wednesday, reports Bloomberg.

Apple will surely not grant Donald Trump's request, quite simply because it is not able to do so. The American manufacturer cannot obtain the content of a device secured by encryption. If a suspect has set up a way to encrypt their iPhone, it is impossible to bypass this security.Furthermore,end-to-end encryption of apps like iMessageor WhatsApp blocks anyone from accessing conversations,apart from the user himself (and the recipient).

The Republican candidate for the American presidential election should therefore not obtain a public response from Apple, or only negative feedback. Remember that the FBI managed to access the contents of the smartphone of Donald Trump's first attacker killed during his meeting thanks to the controversial Israeli software Ufed. However, it was a Samsung device and not an iPhone.