In recent Months, we have seen how Apple and the FBI have faced before the media, and the courts, over and over again by the case of the iPhone 5s shooter San Bernardino. Day 2 December 2015 a slaughter took place in this population of California, a nonprofit center that serves people with developmental disabilities.
Although both the shooter and his accomplice were killed during a shootout later, police recovered the iPhone shooter. Since then, the FBI has tried to convince Apple to Des bloque ASE the terminal, but the company refused to provide a back door to this federal agency, to prevent the way they had access to any iPhone in the future.
Given the refusal of Apple, alleging that have acceded to the request would have jeopardized the privacy of all its devices, the FBI sought other alternatives until finally managed to unlock it.To do this, they had to pay more than a million dollars to a company cyber security Israel, who managed to access finally the contents of the iPhone locked.
Although the exact figure was not revealed, the FBI director (James Comey) ensures that this company was paid more than what he will earn over the next seven years will be in the position. As the director of the federal agency makes $ 185,100 a year, at least the company of Israel has been awarded $ 1.3 million to break the iPhone security and give them access.
Still, after nearly half a year of research, trying to unlock the device and maintaining a legal process during this time, neither the FBI nor the insistence of money they have invested helped them discover something useful. In fact, when the Israeli company gave them access to the terminal, they found nothing that could be useful in fighting terrorism, so everything has been in vain.
Anyway, the FBI director is confident that, although they have not been able to obtain useful information, all this is over leading them to a situation where in the future is not necessary to spend so much money and hack a phone to obtain the information it is stored in it.Will they someday Apple yielding to pressure the Government of the United States? Or is it possible that already had access from the beginning as some media suggest?
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