What’s Behind the Battle Between FBI and Apple

A recent court order against Apple compels the company to help the FBI gain access to a locked iPhone 5C used by San Bernardino terrorist Syed Farook.

While Apple has helped law enforcement access data on other iPhones on at least 70 other occasions, new security protections make it increasingly difficult to do so with newer iPhones like Farook’s. This is because Apple, in order to strengthen the security of its devices, designed new iPhones with encryption that no one can break (including Apple itself). This includes passcodes that only the user knows. New iPhones have features that work to foil thieves and cyber-criminals, such as making a thief wait increasingly longer time between failed passcode attempts and an auto-erase function that can wipe the device clean after 10 failed attempts. More...

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