Apple Misses a Byte

Apple and the FBI finally found a solution to their problem

If you are an Apple supporter, you will like how they are standing by your side to prevent your information from leaking out to the public. The FBI and Apple have been in a feud over whether or not to unlock the iPhone 5C used by the terrorists of the San Bernardino, California attack on December 2, 2015. The phone was identified to belong to the terrorists, Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, who were married. They killed 14 individuals and injured 22 individuals.

The FBI filed a lawsuit against Apple, but recently after, they told a U.S judge about the third party on Monday, March 21, that had demonstrated an alternate method to unlock the phone. This hack will be able to be performed without the aid of Apple.

According to CNBC published on Monday, March 21, 2016, “People are going to ques-tion how secure the iOS (Apple’s operating system) is if the FBI can hire someone to hack it,” said Gene Munster, managing director and senior research analyst at Piper Jaffray.

The FBI gave the challenge of breaking the phone to several different people, what most likely occurred was one of those people who had the phone made some progress. The FBI has turned to Israeli software company Cellebrite to help break the encryption on the phone.

According to BGR published on March 30, 2016, East Baton Rouge district attorney Hil-lar Moore III asked, “Eventually we would like to know: Is this technology available to us, or is the third party going to sell it, and how much would it cost?”

Apple is not allowing the FBI to unlock the phone, even though it could help tremen-dously with recovering information on the terrorists cell phones, because they do not want their supporters to stop using their products. On the other hand, the FBI does not agree with Apple, they think it is fair to unlock the phone to get information on why the terrorists committed this crime.

Microsoft president and chief legal officer Brad Smith said, “We need 21st century laws that address 21st century technology issues,” according to Fortune, published on February 27, 2016.

The FBI is hoping the software company will be able to help them in unlocking the phone. This event has stirred up much controversy regarding people’s personal information and who is allowed to access it.
The FBI is hoping the software company will be able to help them in unlocking the phone. This event has stirred up much controversy regarding people’s personal information and who is allowed to access it.