Apple’s legal arguments in iPhone encryption case

On this, Apple rebutted that while the company supports law enforcements efforts to pursue terrorists and other criminals it will not compromise the rights of its consumers especially when the request order finds no legal merit.

Apple filed its formal objection in the case Thursday.

Apple – backed by other tech companies and privacy advocates – has characterized such software as a “backdoor” that hackers could use to crack into other iPhones. The government demands that Apple create a back door to defeat the encryption on the iPhone, making its users’ most confidential and personal information vulnerable to hackers, identity thieves, hostile foreign agents, and unwarranted government surveillance.

“There are probably 50 different ideas we have all sent to Apple”, Jonathan Zdziarski, an iOS-based digital forensics and security expert, said in the article.

Syed Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik shot and killed 14 of their San Bernardino County Department of Public Health coworkers in December 2015, and injured 22 more.

“These are the right things to do”, said Cook.

After a court ordered Apple to help federal investigators get into an encrypted iPhone, the company responded with a court filing Thursday that describes the FBI-requested order as illegal, unconstitutional and risky. In its formal response, the technology company asked the court to revoke the order, arguing that it violates constitutional rights to free speech and privacy. However, companies like Apple and Google are not required adhere to such request. Apple CEO Tim Cook told ABC News on Wednesday the company is willing to take the case to the US Supreme Court if necessary.

Burguan’s statement that there’s a chance the iPhone holds nothing of value aligns with previous Apple assertions that the Federal Bureau of Investigation hasn’t shown it knows the device holds anything worthwhile.

Specifically, the government would force Apple to create new software with functions to remove security features and add a new capability to the operating system to attack iPhone encryption, allowing a passcode to be input electronically.

Its stance has been widely supported by the tech industry, including Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Twitter. “Some of us remember the days of Hoover and Nixon and McCarthy”, he said referring to former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, President Richard Nixon and Senator Joseph McCarthy.