New York Police due to Apple can't solve hundreds of crimes

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New York City police officials said that because of the encrypted information of criminals on Apple smartphones, they could not solve hundreds of crimes.

Cyrus Vance, the Manhattan District Attorney, pointed out that there is more than 175 criminals' iPhones in the forensic laboratory alone, information on which the authorities cannot access because of encryption and a special protection system that Apple has been working on for years. In addition to data encryption, iPhones are password protected. If you type it incorrectly many times, all information is automatically erased.

The prosecutor noted that 175 iPhones had been confiscated since September 2014. And for all the time seized 675 mobile phones. According to statistics, the police can not read information from every fourth smartphone.

In what specific criminal cases the police can not decipher the phone, the head of the New York police did not say. However, as an example, he cited the case of an attack on two policemen in the Bronx. The investigator’s phone got into the phone of a friend of the alleged shooter, but the gadget cannot be cracked.

Knowing about information encoding, it is more profitable for criminals to use Apple smartphones. The police chief himself heard from the prisoner that Apple’s coding policy is “another gift from God.”

As ForumDaily wrote earlier, a court in Los Angeles ruled that Apple should provide technical assistance to the FBI who requested access to the iPhone Syed Farouk, who in December 2015 of the year with his wife устроил shooting in california bernardino.

Tim Cook in response saidthat the company can not provide such assistance, because the government, in fact, asks to break into the client protection system, which has been worked on for decades.

Apple's solution was also supported by Google, Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp.

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