The new development will invalidate the lawsuit between Apple and FBI. In the case of the investigation department wanted to force Apple to crack the encryption on the phone
That this is now no longer need, according to Apple is a victory.; the company does not have to assist the FBI in unlocking the phone, which will prevent creating a precedent for future lawsuits. According to Apple, would have ensured that the FBI more often could require the cooperation of the company.
Meanwhile, the hack also means a huge blow to Apple, because the security where the company is so proud of it indeed appears to crack. Although Apple’s phones do not do crack the FBI shows that therefore still be possible for other parties.
Terrorists
The case between Apple and the FBI turned to the iPhone 5c Rizwan Syed Farook, one of the instigators of the massacre in the US city of San Bernardino. The FBI wanted access to his phone to find information about the shooting.
Terrorism and criminality are increasingly being put forward by politicians and security as reasons to restrict the encryption of data in Europe.
include the British Prime Minister Cameron makes no secret of the fact he wants to encrypted message apps, so intelligence can always intercept communications between terrorists an end. The head of the European Police Office, Europol recently advocated rules against strong encryption.
In the Netherlands is already working on a renewal of the Law cybercrime, which the police for years to give the power to hack into computers themselves . In an earlier draft law was also included the so-called ‘decryption order, “which suspects could be required to decrypt encrypted data. That passage was deleted later.
Encryption
Tech Companies working in the meantime just hard on their encryption techniques to keep hackers and intelligence services out the door. Apple could for instance intend cloud service iCloud so strongly to secure that the company can no longer read the data.
Google, Facebook and Snapchat also working on securing their posts – and email services. These projects all strains of the case between Apple and the FBI.
Kraken
How can crack the FBI’s iPhone is still unclear. Known is that the FBI gets help from a third party. Allows the FBI used an older vulnerability, because the phone the bomber still running an older version of iOS.
The hack may eventually work in favor of Apple. According to a relatively new US government must give the FBI information about vulnerabilities to the companies, so the leak can be fixed. Only when national security is at risk, the intelligence service does not have to do. Whether or not, will be announced later.
Cat-and-mouse game
So it seems that the cat-and- mouse game between tech companies and intelligence agencies continue for a while will keep going: tech companies continue to improve their cryptography, intelligence will he crack and politicians continue to step up pressure
Because eventually became apparent to any judge, it remains. unclear whether a company can be required to break down its own security.
This is the wait for the next lawsuit between the FBI and a tech company, so that a court may determine whether a company or not may be required to break encryption.
One such case has been running, again between the US Department of Justice and Apple. In this case it comes to the smartphone from a drug dealer. Judge James Orenstein Apple supported in this case, calling the requirement of the law enforcement agencies “impractical and exaggerated”. The FBI has appealed against the judgment
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