It’s Apple vs the FBI and privacy vs security, once again
The FBI wants Apple’s help unlocking two phones of the Saudi Air Force trainee who killed three people; they shouldn’t get it
As 2020 dawns, we’re mired in another privacy vs security dispute between Apple and the US federal government. Once again, the department of justice is demanding that the company break into a locked iPhone. Once again, the company is resisting. And once again, the rest of us are silent, worried spectators in a game of “Who do you trust?”
In particular, the FBI wants Apple’s help in unlocking two phones belonging to Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, the Saudi Air Force trainee who killed three people in December at Pensacola Naval Air Station. Apple says it has turned over all the data it possesses but refuses to go further and create a backdoor past the encryption that protects its devices...
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