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Apple and FBI, an exhausting game of tennis

A few changes over the course of the weekend, the story which is between Apple and US federal authorities in the investigation related to the massacre in San Bernardino last December 5. After Apple's refusal to provide what it calls a "backdoor" for your phone, here is that the Justice Department of the United States moves to support the request of the federal emitting a motion requesting a court which obligations the apple to help the FBI in the investigation.

Shortly after the US Department of Justice filed the motion, Apple executives have decided to share with the public some information about the missteps that the authorities would carry out the investigation, narrowing themselves the ability to access the phone.




It is supposed to Apple, the Apple password leagata that phone ID is changed in less than 24 hours from when the authorities came into possession of the device. If the password had not been changed, the information in the phone's backup would be more easily accessible by Apple engineers. The FBI claims to have had access to the iCloud backup until October 19, but not in subsequent years and is looking for the latest information that might be stored in the device.

Apple's executives say that the company has regularly coordinated with the authorities since the beginning of January, offering four different ways to retrieve the information for which the government is requesting the infamous "backdoor". Among the methods there would be one that provides for the connection of the call to a known WiFi network that would enable them to recover up to iCloud (which would be automatically started when the phone was connected to a known network) if the associated password at Apple had not changed ID.

Federal authorities later confirmed the facts as described by Apple, but noted that this does not interfere in any way with the request "help" presented to society.

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