On December 6, at the US Army base in Pensacola, Florida, a man shot numerous people. The results of this barbaric act included several injuries and two deaths, including the shooter.
As part of its investigation into the criminal's personality and history, the FBI reportedly asked Apple to provide assistance in unlocking the shooter's iPhone. NBC reports that a letter from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation was received several days ago by Katherine Adams, general counsel and senior vice president of legal affairs and security at Apple.
As part of this investigation, the FBI is investigating several iPhone models, not just one. And they're all locked. One of Apple's smartphones was even damaged by a rifle bullet, which doesn't help to read the data it contains.
The Cupertino company provided details to NBC New which reported on the affair. She said she has already provided all the information in her possession to potentially help the FBI make progress on this case.
However, nothing says whether the iPhones were able to be locked or not thanks to Apple. But the situation very closely resembles that of 2016 and the San Bernardino shootings. In this previous case, the FBI sued Apple to force the Californian company to find a way to read the data from the killer's iPhone, before dropping the case. He then suggested that the smartphone could have been unlocked using a third party company and for a sum of aroundthe million dollars. This affair caused a lot of noise, seeing Apple remain unmoved in the face of a very insistent FBI and continually advocating its desire not to change anything regarding the security of its iPhones.
No, no backdoor on the iPhone
It's a vision that was once again supported by Apple's director of privacy, Jane Horvath, at the CES currently taking place, as highlighted by our colleagues atiMore. According to the senior manager of the Californian firm, for Apple, there is still no question of seeking to create a backdoor on the iPhone, which would allow companies like the FBI, but also many other entities to access much more easily access data from a locked iOS device.
Jane Horvath, Apple’s privacy chief, talking about exactly what you’d expect. They’re the ones giving users control.pic.twitter.com/4pkNc4URjZ
— Parker Ortolani (@ParkerOrtolani)January 7, 2020
According to her, the iPhone being a pocket device and easily lost, sometimes containing extremely private information on the health or finances of the user, it is of first necessity at Apple to do everything to prevent its unlocking by someone one other than its owner.
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Editor-in-chief for iPhon.fr. Pierre is like Indiana Jones, looking for the lost iOS trick. Also a long-time Mac user, Apple devices hold no secrets for him. Contact: pierre[a]iphon.fr.
