Currently what is happening is that a Court Judge has ordered Apple to create a decryption key to get into the phone of one of the San Bernardino shooters."...the FBI wants Apple to disable the security feature. Once the security is crippled, agents would be able to guess as many combinations as possible." The tech giant has gone against this stating "Smartphones, led by iPhone, have become an essential part of our lives. People use them to store an incredible amount of personal information, from our private conversations to our photos, our music, our notes, our calendars and contacts...All that information needs to be protected from hackers and criminals who want to access it, steal it, and use it without our knowledge or permission" the government could use the key to unlock anyones phone. The NSA stated that it would be used to find contacts that were members of terrorist groups and figure out who helped them. It would help better protect civilians for if there are any other occurrences of this. I don’t think that the government has the authority to make Apple make them such a key, it goes against every Apple product owner, and the risk of someone hacking into Apple and stealing this is almost certain. I wonder if this actually goes through if Apple will create brand new firewalls to stop these hackers? And if they don’t what will the government do with the phone?
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The problem with a firewall is the fact that they aren't perfect. There are still plenty of ways to get in if you're good enough and have the time. http://insights.wired.com/profiles/blogs/do-you-know-the-13-ways-your-firewall-could-fail-you#axzz41DLhtOgn
ReplyDeleteI bet the government will probably just try to guess the code every five years. Or maybe they would just give up and they will eventually forget about it.
ReplyDeleteThe government needs the information, but if the media get hold of the story the public will go to chaos like it is now. If the public knows whats going on, people will be protesting and all the unnecessary assembly's.
ReplyDeleteIf they have to, they still have the 10 guesses to get into the phone. Now that's not the smartest thing to do, but it would be better than nothing. Apple is positive that they will not give up the code because they don't want to unlock the backdoor as they say. http://www.apple.com/customer-letter/
ReplyDeleteIf it does fall through then the government will use this for other phones to try to stop other attacks and other stuff. If it doesn't fall through then the government might find a passcode genius to guess the password 10 times and then they'll give up if they don't guess it.
ReplyDeleteWell according to http://www.apple.com/customer-letter/ "Criminals and bad actors will still encrypt, using tools that are readily available to them." Apple is saying that even if they make a firewall it still might not be able too stop all hackers
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