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Apple promises to improve protection after the FBI hacked the iPhone

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Apple has promised to improve the security of its products after the FBI managed to hack into a locked iPhone belonging to Saeed Farooq, a participant in the attack on civilians in San Bernadino, California.

California federal prosecutor Eileen Decker said investigators were assisted in the hack by a “third party,” but did not specify who.

Last week, the press in Israel reported that the Israeli firm Cellebrite was involved in unlocking the phone.

Representatives of the company said the BBC that they work with the FBI, but did not go into details.

The firm’s website, however, claims that one of its software products allows you to receive and decode data from the iPhone 5C - this is the model that Said Farouk had.

After the successful hacking of the phone, the authorities recalled this warrant, and the high-profile litigation would end there.

To the starting point?

Commenting on the investigation, Apple said: “From the very beginning, we objected to the FBI's request to build a lock bypass system into this iPhone, as, in our opinion, this would be incorrect and would create a dangerous precedent. None of this happened as a result of the order being withdrawn. This case should not have been started at all.”

The firm added that it will continue to improve the security of its products as "attempts to gain access to our data occur more frequently and become more sophisticated."

According to BBC technology reviewer Dave Lee, this case has now moved from a phase of acute confrontation to another plane: the US government now has knowledge of the vulnerability in the security system of Apple devices.

To protect its reputation, the company will make every effort to detect and patch this hole. If this can be done, then the situation will return to the starting point.

Therefore, Apple insists that there will be an ongoing "national conversation" on this issue. U.S. prosecutors, meanwhile, say they will continue to seek judicial assistance to force Apple and other smartphone companies to cooperate with the investigation.

Any price

“The government's first priority is to provide law enforcement with access to critical digital information to ensure national security and protect citizens - either with the cooperation of the appropriate parties or through the courts if such cooperation is not provided,” California Attorney Decker summed up the official point vision.

The FBI wanted to unlock the phone of Farouk who was shot during the arrest, as the device may contain important information.

The FBI problem was the smartphone security system. All data on the iPhone is automatically destroyed after 10 failed attempts to enter the phone access code. Even the company itself can not access files in the memory of the smartphone.

 

Farouk and his wife Tashfin Malik 3 December opened fire in the American city of San Bernadino. As a result, unarmed 14 people died. The spouses themselves were killed by the police.

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