The Justice Department on Thursday filed its latest response to Apple in the fight over iPhone encryption, calling the tech giant's rhetoric in the San Bernardino, California, case "false" and "corrosive" of institutions that safeguard rights.
The debate surrounds whether Apple should comply with a court order to help authorities unlock an iPhone used by one of the shooters in last year's San Bernardino attack, which left 14 people dead.
"Here, Apple deliberately raised technological barriers that now stand between a lawful warrant and an iPhone containing evidence related to the terrorist mass murder of 14 Americans. Apple alone can remove those barriers so that the FBI can search the phone, and it can do so without undue burden," the DOJ wrote in the filing.
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Here's the plan Apple needs to foist up to the gov't...:
ReplyDeleteIn the amount of time it will take to rewrite the software as the government requests, we will upgrade every current phone of that type (at government expense) to a device with stronger encryption and protective measures, so that every citizen is protected from current government intrusion and loss of security at the tyrants hands.