{"id":22218,"date":"2016-04-06T16:05:15","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T20:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=22218"},"modified":"2021-02-17T16:33:59","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T21:33:59","slug":"bth-lessons-in-cybersecurity-from-fbi-vs-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2016\/04\/06\/bth-lessons-in-cybersecurity-from-fbi-vs-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"BtH: Cybersecurity Lessons From FBI vs. Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BtH1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Experts discussed the recent dispute between Apple and the Federal Bureau of Investigation over the encryption of an iPhone\u00a0belonging\u00a0to\u00a0Syed Rizwan Farook, one of the shooters involved in the 2015 San Bernardino attack, at an April 6, 2016 panel\u00a0held at the\u00a0Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span>The event was part of the School\u2019s \u201cBeyond the Headlines @BUPardeeSchool,\u201d or BtH series.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The panel, entitled “Lessons in Cybersecurity: FBI vs. Apple,<\/a>” included\u00a0Pardee School Assistant Professor of International Relations\u00a0Ivan\u00a0Arregu\u00edn-Toft<\/a>, cyber defense, strategy, and policy dimension co-chair at the University of Oxford\u2019s Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre,\u00a0Professor Sharon Goldberg<\/a>, a cyber security expert with BU’s Computer Science Department, and was moderated by Pardee School Professor of the\u00a0Practice\u00a0and former Central Intelligence Agency officer John D. Woodward\u00a0Jr<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The talk was attended by 40 students from the Pardee School, Department of Political Science, Department of Computer Science and Questrom School of Business as well as staff members from Boston University Information Services and Technology.<\/p>\n

\"BtH2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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After\u00a0announcing in February that it was unable to unlock encryption of user data on the\u00a0iPhone belonging to Farook, the FBI asked Apple to help bypass security encryption on the iPhone. Apple denied due to a policy never to undermine security features of its products, and was presented with a court order to help bypass the security features. In March, the FBI announced that a third party had possibly helped them find a<\/span>\u00a0way to bypass security encryption on the iPhone.<\/span><\/p>\n

Goldberg said one of the issues at the crux of the standoff between the FBI and Apple has been civilian access to levels of encryption technology that had previously only been available to the government and military.<\/p>\n

“Today we have reached unprecedented levels of \u00a0encryption of the internet, civilians are getting access to encryption technology that decades ago that only the military could have,” Goldberg said. “This is creating a problem for law enforcement because they are not able to introspect their conversations and collect evidence or do whatever it is they are trying to do.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Arregu\u00edn-Toft argued that Apple’s argument for not aiding the FBI in bypassing the security features\u00a0was stronger than the FBI’s reasoning for why Apple should help\u00a0bypass the security encryption.<\/p>\n

“If you view the logic of both sides arguments, the FBI’s versus Apple’s, even without a lot of evidence, Apple just has a better argument to make,” Arregu\u00edn-Toft said. “I think the strongest part of their evidence, they say they can’t write software that’s sufficiently discriminate just to unlock the one phone which is the original argument the FBI made.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Woodward said maintaining secure encryption\u00a0is of crucial importance to the security of intellectual property.<\/p>\n

“I think you probably realize, one of the greatest thefts in the 21st century has been the theft of American intellectual property,” Woodward said. “How has it been stolen? Electronically. Why has it been stolen? For some of the reasons Sharon has been talking about–encryption is not as good as we think and a lot of encryption has not been done properly. We need good encryption if we are to have good security.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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