the FBI investigators said Monday that the service to the iPhone 5c of one of the terrorists who shot dead fourteen people in San Bernardino last December and 22 others wounded, without Apple’s software had managed to unlock. Apple believes that the government is now obliged to inform the company.

A special group set up under the Obama administration, judges or security holes in computers and other devices that have been discovered by federal agencies must be made public so that businesses can plug the leak and protect data better. Usually the decision is to the advantage of businesses, but if there is a clear threat to national security or need for police investigation “, the government does not have to disclose the discovered weaknesses.

The problem is that there is no hard, firm rules about this, said the cybersecurity coordinator of the White House told Reuters