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Can hack the FBI iPhones without Apple?

In the dispute on the decryption of iPhones it may come to no trial of power between Apple and the U.S. government. The FBI could hack the phones without help – and a red line crossing.

According to the U.S. Department of justice, the Federal police FBI could have found a way to crack even without the help of the US technology group is the Smartphone of an assassin. At the request of the Ministry, a California Federal judge postponed a court hearing, continued to the dispute.

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So far, Apple continues to be strictly a court order to help the FBI in the decryption of the iPhone by Sayed Farook. Farook had a the beginning of December with his wife in
Islamist attack in San Bernardino 14 people shot to death, marriage to the Couple by the police was killed in an exchange of fire. The U.S. justice Department argues, the decryption of Farooks iPhone could possibly bring important evidence to light. Lawyers of the Ministry of justice informed now to have a third party get tips, how Farooks iPhone would be without the help of the manufacturer to decrypt. There are still more Tests are needed to decide whether this method work actually.

“Privacy is Apple’s duty”

The US technology group Apple looks to the words of his boss, Tim Cook, will almost have a duty to protect its customers ‘ data against access by the US authorities. “We owe it to our customers. Prior to this responsibility, we will not press us,” said Cook at the company’s headquarters in Cupertino, California.

Appel CEO Tim Cook: “companies are obliged to data protection”

“We need to decide as a Nation how much we Power of government over our data and our privacy, to give up,” said Cook during an event for the presentation of new Apple products. “We are of the firm Belief that we have an obligation to help your data and protect your privacy.”

Back cover for Apple from all sides

Apple leads in the field that it is going to be far more than an isolated incident. To unlock Farooks iPhone, need to develop the company, therefore a Software, which would make it generally easy to crack the encryption of iPhones. The group sees the danger that a precedent should be created to facilitate generally access by the security authorities on the iPhones.

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Is supported Apple in its opposition to the claim of the government of
other Software giants like Facebook, Google and Yahoo. Cook also back has received coverage from the United Nations: The US authorities risked to open the “Pandora’s box,” warned the UN human rights Commissioner Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein.

US government creates präzidenz case

The decryption of the smartphone should be enforced in the one case, it could have “extremely harmful consequences for the rights of millions of people – for their physical and financial security,” said Zeid. Because this would create a precedent that would make Apple and every other global technology group’s “impossible” to protect the data of its users around the world. In the case of the dispute over the phone-decoding it but not to the attempt by Apple to protect Criminals and terrorists, but a “red line” for protection against crime and Repression. Apple should be forced to use a decryption Software to Crack its devices, this would be “a gift to authoritarian regimes, and criminal hackers”.

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