FBI Access to iOS to ‘Pave Way’ for Every Gov’t to Break Into Any Device
SputnikNews.com
03.03.2016
Forcing Apple to weaken the encryption of the iPhone involved in a terrorism probe would create the so-called FBIos, a precedent letting government access any device, the Pirate Party of New Zealand, advocating human rights in the digital age, told Sputnik Thursday.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — A legal battle is unfolding between US law enforcement and Apple over a court order obtained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to unlock the iPhone used by the San Bernardino shooter, to examine the device for potential Islamist contacts, while Apple claims the move could open all its telephones to government spying.
“A court decision to force Apple to create the FBIos would mean that there is a master key for all iPhones, iPads and iPod touch,” the party’s treasurer, Andrew McPherson, said.
McPherson stressed that every government in the world would have the ability to unlock any iOS device if its owner was suspected of the slightest offense, and it would also mean that criminals would also have an easy access to those devices.
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