The Justice Department is now stating that it could potentially demand Apple hand over iOS source code and a signing key in the San Bernadino iPhone case. A recent court filing states that the Justice Department made the proposal as a footnote in a recent rebuttal of Apple’s arguments in the case. In the brief, […]
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This is probably the next step in the escalating war between Apple and the Justice Department. The Justice Department on Thursday issued a statement claiming Apple’s rhetoric of privacy protection in the San Bernadino iPhone 5c unlocking case to be “false”. Last month, the Federal Bureau of Investigation obtained a court order requiring Apple to […]
The legal/encryption squabble continues. On Wednesday, Apple, representing itself in a New York court, took sides regarding backdoor access to iPhone encryption and stated that the company could not unlock iPhones running iOS 8 or higher even if it wanted to. Apple called the request to access an encrypted iPhone “impossible to perform” on more […]