Italy

Father appealed to Apple CEO Tim Cook

May be used in terrorist investigations, the data security repealed? Week long raged about the dispute between Apple and the FBI. The theme also has a human side, in this case from Italy.

In the midst of the debate about the decryption of the iPhone, the Smartphone from Apple, has asked an Italian father is the head of the U.S. technology giant, Tim Cook, to crack the Smartphone of his deceased son. “Don’t deny me please the memories of my son,” wrote Leonardo Fabbretti in an E-Mail to Cook, and the head of the Apple software Department, the news Agency AFP quoted. The architect wants to apply, if necessary, to the same experts who helped the FBI.

Fingerprint ID does not work

Fabbretti had adopted his son Dama in the year 2007 in Ethiopia. 2013 was diagnosed at the young bone cancer, last September he died, despite several operations and chemotherapy at the age of 13 years.

Since then, Fabbretti tried, apparently in vain, the password lock of Damas iPhone to break. He had given his son the Smartphone is nine months before his death, Fabbretti, and that I wanted the father to have access: “It has added to my fingerprint as ID.” However, this method will not work if the phone had completely been turned off.

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Help from Israel

In his email to the Apple CEO, on the newspaper “Repubblica” reported, the Italians determined to get to the last “photos, thoughts, and words” of his boys. He has already been in contact with the Israeli company, which was supposed to have helped the U.S. the Federal police, to decrypt the iPhone of a suspected Islamist bomber; it shall have, free of charge, offered his help.

In General, he is actually supporting Apple’s privacy policy, the architect added. However, the technology should cases of group “in the exception as my” solutions. His Letter of 21. March remained unanswered to this day.

FBI is helping yourself

The FBI had notified the beginning of the week, also
without the help of Apple’s access to a Smartphone provides, the had used a Terrorist.

bor/wl (afp)