The FBI calls “software equivalent to cancer” Tim Cook – Parentesis

Tim Cook faces the peak of its management: defense against public opinion about the importance of keeping the iPhone encryption . This morning the string ABC News published an interview of more than 30 minutes in which Cook defends its refusal to create a software that allows decrypting information iPhone Syed Farook , one of the shooters responsible for the slaughter of San Bernardino. “If a court can ask us to write a piece of software, think about what else you could ask us to write . Maybe an operating system for surveillance . Perhaps a skill so that the law can turn on the camera. I mean, I do not know where it will stop, “said Cook against the journalist David Muir.

Cook refuses to create a tool to unlock the iPhone Syed Farook, which the FBI suspected could obtain information on Farook complicit partner and a possible relationship with the self-styled Islamic State. The FBI specifically asks Apple design a version of iOS that alters the so-called System Information File (SIF according to its acronym) to enter an unlimited number of passwords for unlock an iPhone through a computer . The case has been adopted by the American public as a dispute over national security, however, Apple’s CEO believes that the request of the FBI threatens the civil liberties of all its customers. “I know people who frame the case as a dispute privacy against national security. That is simplistic and untrue. This is not about public safety. The phone carries loads more information about you than probably any other device or elsewhere “he defended. Later the executive remarked that FBI request not only threatens the security of Apple , but virtually any other software that protects personal data . “If the government can ask Apple to create a piece of software that could ordenárselo any other well. It will not stop there. “

Apple has until tomorrow to respond to the request of the District Court of Los Angeles , ordering it to cooperate with the FBI. Unless the case of an unusual twist, the answer will Apple be “no”. The case, however, will be discussed on March 1 before the US Congress.

During the interview published by ABC News Tim Cook compared to the requested by the FBI tool as “ software equivalent to cancer “. Cook stressed that the only way to access Farook iPhone is creating software that would open a “back door” for anyone malintencionado- -bienintencionado or have access to information stored on an iPhone.

“ hacking has become an increasingly common activity . It is very difficult to keep information secure, and an ordinary person could not. They trust Apple. Just flip to see the government , who has had some of the worst violations in this area . Security software improves with each launch, encryption becomes more advanced. It has to be one step ahead of the bad guys, “he said.

Apple encrypts the data hosted on an iPhone-from text messages to photographs- since September 2014, after the cyber-activist Edward Snowden revealed spying programs sponsored by the NSA. The Apple security system requires a four-digit numeric password to access the data, but if 10 times wrong code is entered, the software removes data from the phone. Apple does not have access to passwords or encrypted data.

“Some things are hard and others are correct. Some are both. This is one of those things, “Cook finished off

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