Last week the company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), was obliged by a court decision to decrypt an iPhone in the possession of the FBI, being used by a terrorist before a terrorist attack that took place in San Bernadino last December.
Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), he had three days to respond to this decision, the term being extended at the request of his lawyers, and today he had to be submitted to the court that made the decision, which was done by those from Cupertino in the form of a 65-page document .
Although the explanations are long and complex, the Apple company requests the annulment of the decision that forces it to decrypt the data from that iPhone, saying that it should not be forced to do so using a modified version of iOS that previously had security measures removed.
Apple also explains the fact that the FBI's intentions are not only to unlock a single iPhone, but to force Apple to remove the security measures of the iOS operating system so that iDevices can be decrypted in the future directly by American federal agency.
It states that if it is forced to decrypt this iPhone, the court would set a dangerous precedent, creating a version of iOS with security measures removed, endangering all iDevice users, this version could also be used by hackers to compromise terminals and steal data or money from users.
Whether all Apple's explanations will convince the court or not remains to be seen, but next week the head of the company's legal department will testify in the US Congress in an attempt to block the request from the FBI, the legal battle being an extremely complex one.
