Apple Refused Create 'Backdoor' for FBI
Rabu, 17 Februari 2016 - 20:06 WIB
Apple Refused Create 'Backdoor' for FBI
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NEW YORK - Apple is preparing for a clash with US cops after FBI investigators demanded access to an iPhone used by terrorists who killed 14 people.
As reported by Mirror, Tim Cook, CEO of this tech giant, said the FBI has asked the firm to help create a "backdoor" which could potentially allow hackers to crack into any iPhone in the world. Cops want to look at the data stored on the iPhone 5C owner by Syed Rizwan Farook, who committed the terrorist atrocity with his wife Tashfeen Malik.
But Cook claimed the only way to do this was to create a dangerously insecure version of iOS, the operating system which powers iPhones and iPads.
"The government suggests this tool could only be used once, on one phone. But that’s simply not true. Once created, the technique could be used over and over again, on any number of devices. In the physical world, it would be the equivalent of a master key, capable of opening hundreds of millions of locks from restaurants and banks to stores and homes. No reasonable person would find that acceptable," Cook wrote in a lengthy statement.
He claimed the alleged back door would leave millions of customers open to hack attacks and said the "demand would undermine the very freedoms and liberty our government is meant to protect".
As reported by Mirror, Tim Cook, CEO of this tech giant, said the FBI has asked the firm to help create a "backdoor" which could potentially allow hackers to crack into any iPhone in the world. Cops want to look at the data stored on the iPhone 5C owner by Syed Rizwan Farook, who committed the terrorist atrocity with his wife Tashfeen Malik.
But Cook claimed the only way to do this was to create a dangerously insecure version of iOS, the operating system which powers iPhones and iPads.
"The government suggests this tool could only be used once, on one phone. But that’s simply not true. Once created, the technique could be used over and over again, on any number of devices. In the physical world, it would be the equivalent of a master key, capable of opening hundreds of millions of locks from restaurants and banks to stores and homes. No reasonable person would find that acceptable," Cook wrote in a lengthy statement.
He claimed the alleged back door would leave millions of customers open to hack attacks and said the "demand would undermine the very freedoms and liberty our government is meant to protect".
(rnz)
