Apple could break into this one phone, provide the data to the FBI, and give them nothing more. In the past, gov’t had to get a court order requiring a phone company to perform a wire tap, but the phone company performed all the necessary steps and did not give gov’t access to their central office switching equipment.
The article is mixing what is needed from this one phone with requiring Apple to give gov’t the capability of decrypting every iphone, which definitely should not happen.
That’s exactly what I was thinking. Give Apple the phone, let them break into the phone so the FBI has access to the data that was encrypted so they can do more research. If they are concerned about giving away company secrets/IP, they could probably print out the data then re-encrypt the phone.
I’m not a huge Apple fan but there is probably a mutually agreeable way for the FBI to get the info they need without Apple giving away their IP (I do understand the significance of that having worked in the IP industry for a number of years and more companies moving to encryption to avoid hackers being able to have access).
thanks. that was my question exactly.
seems to me to be a reasonable solution.
apple should open up these two phones, give the government the data from these two phones and keep the way through the backdoor to themselves.
Right, the government always a court order. Where were you in the 60’s?