Reality Check: Why McAfee Says FBI Really Wants To End Encryption, Not Hack Just One iPhone
Feb 26, 2016 16:49:55 #
Reality Check: Why McAfee Says FBI Really Wants To End Encryption, Not Hack Just One iPhone
By Ben Swann - Feb 24, 2016
By now you know that the FBI is demanding and a federal magistrate judge is ordering Apple to build a backdoor to its operating system.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation says they need it for only one phone, only this one time. But nobody is buying that, including the man who says if that is true, he can do it.
This is a Reality Check you wont see anywhere else.
The case involves an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters, Syed Farook. Farooks iPhone, which was given to him by his government employer, is locked and the FBI says they cant get into it unless they get help from Apple.
So what exactly is the FBI asking for?
To be clear, Apple cannot extract information directly from Farooksor anyone elsesiPhone. That is because all data on an iPhone is encrypted.
The security measures for iOS 8, which rolled out in 2014, ensure that no one, not even Apple, can access information on an iPhone by sneaking through a software backdoor.
Now a federal judge says Apple has to create that backdoor. Apple says they fight this all the way to the Supreme Court...
By Ben Swann - Feb 24, 2016
By now you know that the FBI is demanding and a federal magistrate judge is ordering Apple to build a backdoor to its operating system.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation says they need it for only one phone, only this one time. But nobody is buying that, including the man who says if that is true, he can do it.
This is a Reality Check you wont see anywhere else.
The case involves an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters, Syed Farook. Farooks iPhone, which was given to him by his government employer, is locked and the FBI says they cant get into it unless they get help from Apple.
So what exactly is the FBI asking for?
To be clear, Apple cannot extract information directly from Farooksor anyone elsesiPhone. That is because all data on an iPhone is encrypted.
The security measures for iOS 8, which rolled out in 2014, ensure that no one, not even Apple, can access information on an iPhone by sneaking through a software backdoor.
Now a federal judge says Apple has to create that backdoor. Apple says they fight this all the way to the Supreme Court...
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