other Friday evening , Apple invite at least two batches of reporters to separate league calls . ( There were ruler * . ) This was just hours after the Justice Department filed a motion for a court order that would oblige Apple to assist the FBI , framing the society ’s refusal to collaborate asa PR stunt .
During the call , a elderly Apple executive read that if a government employee had n’t messed up andaccidentally reset the San Bernardino shooter ’s iCloud watchword , Apple may not have been conscript into the data retrieval effort . Why ? The government might have been able to get to the explanation without Apple ’s help .
As Gizmodopreviously reported , the court rescript disclose that the San Bernardino Health Department had inadvertentlyreset the iCloud passwordfor the earphone in dubiousness .
Update 2/20 2 pm : So — to be clean — it appear that it was a local San Bernardino employee who mess up , and not the FBI .
Update 2/20 7 autopsy : And as it turn out , San Bernardino County is contesting the FBI ’s depiction of events . In a tweet today , the Countysaid it was working with the FBIwhen it changed the iCloud password .
https://gizmodo.com/san-bernardino-county-calls-the-fbi-liars-over-terroris-1760317923
Even with an unmoved iCloud password , the governing still may have needed Apple ’s help , but Apple is portraying that screw - up as a major mistake . fundamentally , Apple is saying that the governing may have been able-bodied to access this data with ease . Now , we ’ll never lie with , because changing the password made iCloud auto - backup impossible .
https://gizmodo.com/the-san-bernardino-terrorists-icloud-password-was-accid-1760158613
Apple offered the government four alternative technique to help it get at the phone ’s datum , as an alternate to create a special software , the executive tell reporters . This is a very unlike scenario than the one portrayed in the governing ’s movement , which paints Apple as thoroughly uncooperative .
But there is one matter the governing and Apple agree on : It is technically possible for Apple to compose the variety of software in demand . In fact , the administrator admitted that the Cupertino company would be capable to write this software package not only for its newest phones but also for all phones it has in economic consumption . And that ’s one of the reasons Apple insist that the essence of writing the software is far too peachy — any package it create could play as a passe-partout key .
Apple has n’t give away exactly how far it will go before it accede . However , this will in all probability have an impact on how it designs protection measures in the future . Apple may contrive them to make it technically impossible to force the ship’s company to follow .
What ’s clear , though , is that this conflict will be fight back with spin on both side in an attempt to influence public opinion . Apple CEO Tim Cook as well as FBI director James Comeyhave been invitedto come along before the House Energy and Commerce Committee ’s subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations . We go for we ’re invite .
- – The conditions of this call : no figure and no direct quotation . That ’s why I ’m rephrase so much .
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