WASHINGTON – The administration of US President Barack Obama told a federal judge today would be willing to allow Apple Inc. retains possession and subsequently destroy the specialized software that has been ordered to design with in order to help the FBI to hack an encrypted iPhone that was used by a perpetrator of the shooting December in California.
the government made clear that it was open to less invasive options on a new legal petition aimed at quell public criticism made by the CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, who noted that create the software would be “too dangerous” because it would endanger the digital privacy of millions of users of iPhones in the world.
“Apple could maintain custody of the software, after destroying its purpose in accordance with the issued order, refuse to distribute it outside of Apple and make it clear to the world that does not apply to other devices or users without court orders,” he said Department of Justice judge Sheri Pym. “No one outside of Apple have access to the software required by the order unless Apple decides to share it.”
Meanwhile, the legal battle continued ringing in the presidential campaign when Republican candidate Donald Trump asked American boycott Apple until obey the order of the court.
Trump made the comment during a question and answer session in Pawleys Island, South Carolina, where campaigning before Saturday’s primary election. Trump said that Cook wants to demonstrate “how liberal is” and asked the public to “boycott Apple to desist to that security.”
In the latest verbal dispute between the US government and of the world’s most respected companies, the Justice Department argued that Apple has the technical capacity to comply with a court order, but would not because that’s your marketing strategy.
“Apple has tried design and sell their products to enable the technology, not the law, control access to the data required for this court has an important research, “say the documents filed in court.
the motion Department of Justice, which seeks to force Apple to comply with the order of Pym, seems focused on refuting some of the key objections to Apple and its supporters. Indicates that the software asks the government, contrary to the claims of Apple, it is not like a “master key able to open hundreds of millions of locks”. And also rejects the idea that the court order represents an unjustified burden on the company, saying beforehand Apple has the technical resources to comply.
“As Apple says that the order is absurdly burdensome because it undermines the marketing strategies of Apple or because they fear criticism for the government to provide lawful access, these concerns do not generate an excessive burden, “wrote the government.
the written objection Apple identified by Cook in a message to Apple customers, will be published on Friday.
on Tuesday, the judge ordered Apple to provide the FBI’s highly specialized software that could be loaded on the iPhone 5C used in their work by Syed Farook, who was killed along with his wife in a shootout with police after killing 14 people in December in San Bernardino, California. US officials have indicated that the attacks were partly inspired by the Islamic terrorist group State.
Although the judge ordered Apple to create software for the FBI, she said it could be loaded to the phone in one of Apple facilities.
But the Justice Department made it clear on Friday that Apple could keep possession of the software at all times.
This software would bypass a security feature that erases all data when the wrong password is entered 10 consecutive times.
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