The legal dispute between Apple and the FBI from the spring of this year could be repeated now because the American federal agency wants Apple to unlock its iPhone terminal that belonged to another terrorist. We are still talking about a deceased terrorist, the FBI trying to obtain all the information that is available in his terminal in order to find out data about the network he was part of.
Dahir Adan is the name of the terrorist whose iPhone is in the possession of the FBI, he stabbed 10 people in a mall in Minnesota before being killed by a policeman. ISIS has assumed the attack, and the FBI wants to see who the terrorist is talking to, his terminal being, of course, locked with a security code and impossible to access.
The FBI has not yet confirmed that it intends to obtain a court order to compel Apple to unlock this new iPhone terminal. Although the confirmation has not yet come from them, there are still quite high chances that the US Ministry of Justice will start a new battle with Apple, although it has a very high chance of losing it.
In the spring, Apple opposed a court order by which it was obliged to unlock an iPhone 5C, stating then that it could not do this for the authorities. This time things will not change, but it remains to be seen if the FBI will want another public humiliation in a dispute with Apple, which it knows for sure that it will not be able to win.
"Dahir Adan's iPhone is locked. We are in the process of assessing our legal and technical options to gain access to this device and the data it may contain."
