We Won’t Release iPhone Master Key (Promise!) — FBI to Apple

“They were targeted by terrorists, and they need to know why, how this could happen”, Stephen Larson, a lawyer representing an unknown number of victims, told Reuters on Sunday.

Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, were shot dead in a shootout with police hours after the massacre in a Department of Public Health training event and holiday party on December 2, 2015, which left 14 dead and 22 injured.

“We learned that while the attacker’s iPhone was in Federal Bureau of Investigation custody the Apple ID password associated with the phone was changed”, the statement said.

So, in an email sent to Apple employees, Cook claimed that he asked the US Congress to create a commission, which would be in charge of discussing “the implications for law enforcement, national security, privacy and personal freedoms“. “That’s what this is”.

His opinion appeared to diverge from his own company, part of an industry coalition that backed Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook’s warning that building backdoors into mobile software sets a risky precedent.

“We don’t want to break anyone’s encryption or set a master key loose on the land”, Comey wrote.

The issue is not a partisan one: just as many Republicans (56 percent) as Democrats (55 percent) say that Apple should unlock the San Bernardino suspect’s iPhone to aid the FBI’s ongoing investigation, the survey revealed.

In a public letter to customers, Apple CEO Tim Cook accused the government of overreaching.

She said often, information from a phone will be on a computer when the two devices synced.

Larson said he was approached by the justice department last week about representing the victims. He said Apple would comply with any committee.

“They are not asking for some general thing, they are asking for a particular case”, Gates, who remains a technical adviser to Microsoft Corp., told the Financial Times in a Tuesday interview.

I hope folks will take a deep breath and stop saying the world is ending, but instead use that breath to talk to each other. “When they commit unspeakable acts like the tragic attacks in San Bernardino, we work to help the authorities pursue justice for the victims”.

Apple’s supporters planned to protest the FBI’s demands on Tuesday evening outside Apple’s stories in about 50 cities in the U.S., the U.K., Germany and Hong Kong. The government has said that Apple could keep the specialized technology it would create to help officials hack the phone – bypassing a security time delay and feature that erases all data after 10 consecutive, unsuccessful attempts to guess the unlocking passcode.