Technology giant Apple is currently developing new security measures that would make it virtually impossible to “break into” in a locked phone, as reported by the New York Times.
According to experts in IT security magazine talked with Apple has very good potential to succeed in developing a system that does not allow intrusion.
It is the question of a counter Apple’s against the federal authorities in the United States requiring that Apple makes it easier to access information from your phone if it is locked.
A trace of the terror investigation
The FBI is in the process of an investigation into a masskjutning that occurred in San Bernadino, California, in December last year.
Then shot two people to death 14 people and wounded 22 in an attack at a Christmas party for employees of local government before they themselves were killed in exchange of fire with the police.
Investigators have one offender telephone and suspect that the important information, but you will not be around the lock on the phone.
Apple phones includes technology that cleans out all the information from a locked phone, if you try to open it by using the wrong PIN ten times. The phones are made in a way that implies that only the manufacturer’s operating systems in them.
The FBI now wants Apple to develop new software that would bypass several security features and mount it on the phone that FBI investigators had seized in connection with the terror investigation.
“What can they demand from us in the future?”
Apple’s CEO Tim Cook has expressed its concern over the situation. He took to the media to defend the company.
– If the law could require new software from us, what can they demand from us in the future? This kind of thing should not happen in our country, Cook said in an interview with the news channel ABC.
When asked what he would say to the mass killer’s victims, who want Apple helps investigators, responding conditioned Cook:
– They have my deepest sympathies and what they went through should not have to go through. Apple has cooperated with the FBI in full in this case, they have asked us for any information we have about this phone, and we gave them all the information we had.
Cook said he wants to negotiate on the matter with President Barack Obama.
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