FBI also analyzes legislative proposals aimed at obliging large IT companies to introduce gateways in their own software products to facilitate the access of government agencies to customer data. Faced with this new interest, from the FBI, to have access to the data of phone and tablet users, the senior vice president of Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),, Craig Federighi, begins a new war with the American federal agency, but not only with it.
Craig Federighi says that reducing the security of the iOS and macOS operating systems would be stupid and illogical, and any kind of person can be extremely easy to agree, regardless of the situation. Craig Federighi says that most customers use their phones, tablets and laptops to store data that they consider to be safe, and what the FBI is asking is illogical and would compromise the security of this data.
"Proposals that involve giving the keys to customers' device data to anyone but the customer inject new and dangerous weaknesses into product security. Weakening security makes no sense when you consider that customers rely on our products to keep their personal information safe, run their businesses or even manage vital infrastructure like power grids and transportation systems."
Apple attacks the FBI in a new user security war
Despite the opposition made by those from Apple, the FBI is following its plans and has already had meetings with various experts in computer security to discuss how it could break the iPhone and other new mobile phones. Those from the FBI are convinced that iOS and Android can have "gateways" to data that will not compromise the security of the operating systems, and their conviction is based on something from the past that worked.
Blackberry, the favorite company of government agencies that wanted secure cell phones, had keys to decrypt data on its phones, even though the operating systems themselves were, for a time, unbreakable. The FBI is most likely relying on what they saw with Blackberry when they demand that iOS and Android have "access ports" to data from phones and tablets, so their thinking is not quite as stupid as it seems a first sight.
