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11-21-2017, 02:19 AM
Texas church shooting reignites the encryption debate between Apple and FBI
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The encryption debate is heating back up.
Monday, the San Antonio Express-News confirmed (http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Apple-served-with-search-warrant-in-Sutherland-12364230.php#photo-14561149) that Texas authorities have served Apple with a search warrant for files stored on an iPhone SE discovered at the scene of the Sutherland Springs church shooting earlier this month.
The confirmation puts Apple back into a complicated legal battle with the government over the privacy rights of dead people and whether or not the company should assist the government in unlocking smartphones during criminal investigations.
SEE ALSO: The FBI has a 'huge' problem with your smartphone (http://mashable.com/2017/10/23/fbi-smartphone-encryption-access/)
In order to unlock an encrypted phone, such as the one belonging to the Texas church shooter, Apple would need to create a "backdoor" software key that CEO Tim Cook has previously referred to as the "software equivalent of cancer (https://techcrunch.com/2016/02/24/tim-cook-a-backdoor-into-the-iphone-would-be-the-software-equivalent-of-cancer/)." Apple has and continues to argue that creating such a key would have disastrous consequences for all iPhone users because it would make the phones easier to hack.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/11/20/encryption-debate-heating-back-up-iphone-texas-church-shooter/)
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The encryption debate is heating back up.
Monday, the San Antonio Express-News confirmed (http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Apple-served-with-search-warrant-in-Sutherland-12364230.php#photo-14561149) that Texas authorities have served Apple with a search warrant for files stored on an iPhone SE discovered at the scene of the Sutherland Springs church shooting earlier this month.
The confirmation puts Apple back into a complicated legal battle with the government over the privacy rights of dead people and whether or not the company should assist the government in unlocking smartphones during criminal investigations.
SEE ALSO: The FBI has a 'huge' problem with your smartphone (http://mashable.com/2017/10/23/fbi-smartphone-encryption-access/)
In order to unlock an encrypted phone, such as the one belonging to the Texas church shooter, Apple would need to create a "backdoor" software key that CEO Tim Cook has previously referred to as the "software equivalent of cancer (https://techcrunch.com/2016/02/24/tim-cook-a-backdoor-into-the-iphone-would-be-the-software-equivalent-of-cancer/)." Apple has and continues to argue that creating such a key would have disastrous consequences for all iPhone users because it would make the phones easier to hack.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/11/20/encryption-debate-heating-back-up-iphone-texas-church-shooter/)
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