A judge in Los Angeles gave Tuesday computer company Apple orders to help the FBI to unlock the phone to one of the perpetrators behind the shooting massacre in San Bernardino.
San Bernardino massacre
14 people were killed when Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik attacked a party venue on December 2 last year.
Farook and Malik were both killed by police after the terrorist attack.
the FBI wants access to your iPhone in search of possible accomplices.
Apple refuses to obey orders, caused Iphone erases all data unless the correct code is entered.
setting that enables all data is deleted is very simple, and can be switched by all within a few seconds, writes Quartz.
Iphone users can password-protection under “settings” and then under “Touch ID and code”.
Where users can check that all data on your iPhone will be erased after eight failed attempts to open it.
Screenshot of Iphone showing setting automatically delete data. Photo: NRK
can not use computer to crack the code
the limitation of eight attempts enables the FBI can not use computers that run through all possible codes, in their attempts to unlock the phone.
With his four digits are the 10,000 possible password combinations. A computer would be able to try out all in a matter of seconds, if not less, but that is not possible with the limitation of eight attempts.
The FBI in practice ask Apple, is technical assistance to try as many passwords as needed to unlock the phone, without it causes the data is deleted.
Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik in a picture taken at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago on July 27, 2014. photo: US Customs and Border Protection / AP
Do not program to crack passwords
Apple has refused to help the FBI and today rather no computer program that makes it possible to crack the password.
on the contrary, Apple has in recent years promoted the phones and tablets that they are so secure that not even the company can see users’ data.
FBI (and the judge in Los Angeles) require Apple to develop an application that allows you to bypass password protection, but that only applies to the specific phone used by those responsible for the San Bernardino massacre.
Even if it would be possible to develop such a program, fearing Apple that it could be abused in other cases.
if there has been created a program that can crack passwords, the FBI or other police forces soon require access also in other cases.
Apple also fears that authorities in other countries will require access to any program that can unlock iPhone and that privacy by phone thus will disappear.
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