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’s center research shootings San Bernardino, California, in which 14 people died.
A iPhone photographed in Washington on Wednesday, February 17, 2016. the iPhone San Bernardino county property that is the subject of a legal battle between Apple Inc and US government lacks a property management dispositvo acquired by the county, which should be installed, it would have given researchers easy and immediate access.
Photo: AP Photo / Carolyn Kaster / AP in Spanish
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 set up by the FBI in facing privacy rights digital and national security issues.
The service costs four dollars per month per phone.
Instead, the only person who knew the code to unlock the phone is dead assailant, Syed Farook, who worked as an inspector in the department of public health of the county.
The iPhone assigned to Farook also lacked the Touch ID feature, which means that the FBI can not use fingerprints attacker to access the device. Federal authorities found the phone in a car after the shootings.
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 of work that used Farook, who died with his wife in a shootout with police after murdered 14 people last December.
The software will help the FBI to enter the phone to skip a delay and cancel the security feature 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 about 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 role installed in any of the phone numbers of inspectors, the 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 remote management technology, 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.
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Fowler reported from New York.
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