The government’s own iPhone county involved in the legal dispute between Apple Inc. and the Department of Justice paid but never installed a feature that would have allowed the FBI to easily unlock the device which is the research center shootings San Bernardino, California, in which 14 people died.
If the technology, known as management of mobile devices had been installed, the authorities of San Bernardino would have unlocked the iPhone remotely without the legal dispute mounted by the FBI in which the rights of digital privacy and national security issues they face.
the service costs four dollars per month per phone.
instead, the only person I knew the unlock code phone is the deceased assailant, Syed Farook, who worked as an inspector in the department of county public health.
the iPhone assigned to Farook also lacked the characteristic of Touch ID, meaning that the FBI can not use the fingerprints of the perpetrator to access the device. Federal authorities found the phone in a car after the shooting.
A federal judge ordered last week that Apple will make available to the FBI a highly specialized software to be installed on the iPhone 5C work that used Farook who died with his wife in a shootout with police after they murdered 14 people last December.
the software will help the FBI to enter the phone to skip a delay of safety and to defeat the that erases all data after 10 consecutive failed attempts to guess the unlock code. This would allow the FBI to use technology to test numbers fast and repeatedly, in what is known as a brute force.
The FBI wants to determine whether Farook used his phone to communicate with others with respect to the attack.
Apple said it would appeal the ruling and has until Friday to intervene in court.
San Bernardino has a contract with technology provider MobileIron Inc. but its function was not installed in any of the phone numbers of inspectors, county spokesman David Wert said. There is no policy in the county regarding the matter so that each unit makes its own decisions.
Wert dismissed the value of technology remote management, because it said Farook or any county employee would have been removed manually. That would have alerted technological county employees who have had to intervene.
In many offices and classrooms, delivered by authorities bring smartphones installed management software. You can unlock, delete information in case of theft or loss, track the physical location of the device, determine which applications to install, check the level of battery charge and install applications. The technology is intended that these products are best suited to corporate environments where tighter controls are important to protect company secrets.
“This is the case faced by the companies” to install management of mobile devices, said John Dickson director Denim Group Ltd., a security consultancy. “The organization simply has no control or influence over the device unless they have some kind of authority in managing mobile devices. The ability to update, delete applications, control some functions remotely. These are the common things you do with this type of mobile device management. “
” The issue from this point, in this case, is why this guy had a device that essentially was uncontrolled, “he added.
This is the first time since the county delivered its first BlackBerry in 2003 when the authorities have requested access to a locked phone owned by the county, said Wert. Prosecutors said in court documents that have consented to the phone to investigate. County policy indicates that digital devices can be investigated at any time and Farook signed the agreement.
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