Tim Cook he really doesn't want to know. Syed Farook's iPhone, the assassin who last December killed 14 people and injured 22 at a social services center in San Bernardino (California) will never be unlocked by Apple.
Closing, perhaps definitively, an international controversy is the CEO of Cupertino who peremptorily declared during an interview with Abc: "The software they ask us to create is the equivalent of a cancer, it is something that we won't, it would be bad for America. It would set a precedent that, in my opinion, would offend a lot of people in the United States."
Cook further stressed that ""public safety is incredibly important, the safety of our children and our families is very important, but protecting people's data is also incredibly important and in this case the trade-off would be exposing people to huge vulnerabilities '”.
There will therefore be no opening towards the FBI which had asked Apple to program a software that would allow to circumvent the iPhone's security systems and therefore to access the data it contains.
Indeed Apple has decided to do the exact opposite. According to rumors reported by the New York Times, the American giant is working on new security measures that would make it impossible for the government to enter a locked iPhone.
When asked by the reporter if he had any doubts that allowing the FBI access to Farook's iPhone could help prevent any future attacks like the one in San Bernardino, Apple's number one replied: "Some things are difficult, some are right and still others are difficult and right. This decision is one of the difficult and right ones." At this point, therefore, the story could end up in court since the Justice Department would have no intention of giving up the request.
