Tim Cook defies order to decrypt iPhone — Apple Vs FBI

Ian Bremmer (@ianbremmer), the president of Eurasia Group, a political risk research and consulting firm, tweeted, “Didn’t realize you can just oppose a judge’s order as if it was a request”.

The debate between Washington and the Silicon Valley is raging on. But what exactly did the Federal Bureau of Investigation ask Apple to do that’s got everyone whipped into a lather?

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest told reporters Wednesday during a briefing that the Department of Justice is “not asking Apple to redesign its product or to create a new backdoor to one of their products”.

Apple CEO Tim Cook has warned its customers of privacy and security issues, if it complies with federal government’s order.

“The government suggests this tool could only be used once, on one phone”, Cook said in a statement on Tuesday.

What investigators are trying to do is figure out the Farook’s password – but they fear that his phone has a common feature that wipes the data completely after a certain number of failed password entries.

“Imagine if that got into the wrong hands”, he says. “The U.S. government has asked us for something we simply do not have, and something we consider too risky to create”, he said in a statement. Beck wrote in a Facebook post Thursday.

Because Apple’s revenue comes from device sales, it has a very different relationship with customers.

What’s really hard is that legislation regarding the government’s access to data is still a gray area. Entering an incorrect code 10 times will automatically erase the phone’s data, if this option has been enabled.

No one will ever know what was going on inside the head of one of the terrorists who went on a deadly rampage late a year ago in San Bernardino, California, killing 14. While Apple CEO Tim Cook has taken a vigorous stand in this issue, the entirety of the tech world needs to stand up on this issue.

“Building a version of iOS that bypasses security in this way would undeniably create a backdoor”, Apple’s CEO wrote on Wednesday.

In that sense, the case is being watched by any company whose customers’ data privacy depends on their security software updates, which is a unique universe of encrypted messaging services like WhatsApp and Signal but also software-makers like Apple and Google.