Background:
Recently, Apple was required to unlock a work-issued iPhone-5C to cooperate with FBI in a terrorist attack. However, Apple declined the request.
Apple’s attitude on encryption: Law enforcement agents around the country have already said they have hundreds of iPhones they want Apple to unlock if the FBI wins this case. In the physical world, it would be the equivalent of a master key, capable of opening hundreds of millions of locks. Of course, Apple would do our best to protect that key, but in a world where all of our data is under constant threat, it would be relentlessly attacked by hackers and cybercriminals. As recent attacks on the IRS systems and countless other data breaches have shown, no one is immune to cyberattacks. …show more content…
In fact, we have a dedicated team that responds to these requests 24/7. We also provide guidelines on our website for law enforcement agencies so they know exactly what we are able to access and what legal authority we need to see before we can help them. For devices running the iPhone operating systems prior to iOS 8 and under a lawful court order, we have extracted data from an iPhone. We’ve built progressively stronger protections into our products with each new software release, including passcode-based data encryption, because cyberattacks have only become more frequent and more sophisticated. As a result of these stronger protections that require data encryption, we are no longer able to use the data extraction process on an iPhone running iOS 8 or later. Hackers and cybercriminals are always looking for new ways to defeat our security, which is why we keep making it
Recently, Apple was required to unlock a work-issued iPhone-5C to cooperate with FBI in a terrorist attack. However, Apple declined the request.
Apple’s attitude on encryption: Law enforcement agents around the country have already said they have hundreds of iPhones they want Apple to unlock if the FBI wins this case. In the physical world, it would be the equivalent of a master key, capable of opening hundreds of millions of locks. Of course, Apple would do our best to protect that key, but in a world where all of our data is under constant threat, it would be relentlessly attacked by hackers and cybercriminals. As recent attacks on the IRS systems and countless other data breaches have shown, no one is immune to cyberattacks. …show more content…
In fact, we have a dedicated team that responds to these requests 24/7. We also provide guidelines on our website for law enforcement agencies so they know exactly what we are able to access and what legal authority we need to see before we can help them. For devices running the iPhone operating systems prior to iOS 8 and under a lawful court order, we have extracted data from an iPhone. We’ve built progressively stronger protections into our products with each new software release, including passcode-based data encryption, because cyberattacks have only become more frequent and more sophisticated. As a result of these stronger protections that require data encryption, we are no longer able to use the data extraction process on an iPhone running iOS 8 or later. Hackers and cybercriminals are always looking for new ways to defeat our security, which is why we keep making it