Will Unlocking Apple’s iPhone Also Unlock a Pandora’s Box?
Network security expert Sharon Goldberg says that what the FBI is asking Apple to do—write new software to unlock the shooter’s phone—would introduce vulnerabilities into Apple’s system and weaken cybersecurity.
Apple is resisting a federal judge’s order that the company write new software code to help the FBI break into the iPhone used by one of the attackers who killed 14 people in San Bernardino, Calif., in December 2015. In its court brief asking that the order be withdrawn, Apple claims that it violates the company’s First and Fifth Amendment rights and oversteps the federal All Writs Act, and that complying with it would “inflict significant harm—to civil liberties, society, and national security.”
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