By now , you likely sleep together that the FBIwants Apple to build a “ backdoor”that circumvents some passcode security feature on Io to get to information lay in on an iPhone 5c as part of its investigation into the San Bernardino terrorist onslaught .
The iPhone 5c is an older model and it lack some security features , such as Touch ID and the Secure Enclave present in newer models like the iPhone 6 and 6s . But what about those new model ? Could Apple conceivably be pull into ramp up a backdoor for those phones , too ? The answer , it seems , is “ yes . ”
TechCrunch describe that , according to an unidentified Apple executive , it is technically feasible for the company to build up a back door on newer iPhones with Touch ID and the Secure Enclave that ’s similar to the one that the FBI want Apple to build for the aforementioned iPhone 5c .
In the San Bernardino case , the FBI need Apple to build a custom version of the iPhone ’s microcode that would allow the means more readily collapse the passcode on an iPhone belonging to Syed Rizwan Farook , one of the suspects in last December ’s terrorist attack in San Bernardino , CA . More specifically , the FBI wants to get around an iOS feature that erases a phone after 10 incorrect passcode guesses so it can “ perform an inexhaustible , high focal ratio brutal force attack,”as our Rich Mogullput it .
The FBI won a court lodge last Tuesday to force Apple to carry out its request — an decree the company plans to appeal . Inan open letterpublished to Apple ’s website , CEO Tim Cook characterized the royal court order as “ a grievous precedent ” and says that the company “ fear[s ] that this demand would undermine the very freedoms and shore leave our regime is think to protect . ”
