In the complex struggle between FBI si Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), there are supporters on both sides, and if the other days we talked about the dozens of companies that support those from Cupertino, today we are talking about those who support the FBI in compromising the security of iDevices.
Three organizations that are composed of employees of various police institutions or government agencies in the US, have filed supporting documents for the FBI in the court hearing a request to unlock the iPhone used by a terrorist in the armed attack in San Bernadino.
In the documentation submitted by them, it is mentioned that the criminals started to use mainly Apple iPhones because the data encryption system in iOS makes it impossible to retrieve information from their devices if they are arrested.
If until recently criminals used cheap phones that they threw away after a few uses, now they use Apple iPhones because they can have secure conversations and they are calm because the data in the devices cannot be accessed by the police.
Some criminals have switched to new iPhones as their "device of choice" to commit wrongdoing due to strong encryption Apple Inc has placed on their products, three law enforcement groups said in a court filing. The brief by the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association and two others also cited a jailhouse phone call intercepted by New York authorities in 2015, in which the inmate called Apple's encrypted operating system "another gift from God."
Criminals are so happy with the security system of iOS that they consider it to be a gift from GOd because it helps them to carry out their criminal activity without fearing that the police could take information from iPhones that could turn into evidence in possible trials.
This is not the first time we hear about such things and it certainly won't be the last, but it was normal for highly secure devices to be preferred by criminals, as happened in the past with Blackberry terminals, although there Canadians always offered data to governments .
