Bloomberg: Apple-FBI Scrap Started When iOS 8 Was Shared With the Feds
http://gizmodo.com/bloomberg-apple-fbi-scrap-started-when-ios-8-was-share-1766107055
The feature explores some of the tensions between Apple and the
FBI over the past 18 months. It makes clear the fact that the
San Bernardino case isn't the real source of tension--it's
merely the public-facing window that let's us peer into an
ongoing battle. Indeed, the feature describes how the fight
stretches back at least as far as 2014 when Apple was planning
to release iOS 8. That version of the OS was a milestone for
Apple, because it used encryption to make it all but impossible
for the anyone--even the hardware manufacturer--to access user
data. Apparently Apple actually gave the FBI a copy of iOS 8
ahead of its public release "so it could study how the new
system would change evidence-gathering techniques." That,
obviously, didn't go down too well, and Bloomberg explains that
it set off the negotiations between Apple and the government
that have at this point descended into the leal battles we're
all too aware of.
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