The US Government will continue to push to unlock iPhones

If anyone thought that Apple's legal battle with the US government was over because they had already managed to access the iPhone 5c of the sniper from the San Bernardino attacks, they were wrong. United States Attorney Robert L. Capers has announced by writing la Government's intention to continue its appeal in the New York case, where the Government tried to force Apple to help it unlock an iPhone related to a Methamphetamine smuggling case (Jesse Pinkman, is that you? 😉).

In the letter, Capers says that «The Government's request is not debatable and will continue to ask Apple for help in accessing data that has been approved for review by a court order.«. And, according to the FBI, the tool they bought to access the iPhone 5c data of the San Bernardino sniper does not work on 64-bit iPhones which, as you all know, are from the iPhone 5s onwards (since 2013).

The US government will continue to press

In February, Judge Orestein rejected the Government's request based on the All Writs Act, claiming that the argument was “too long ... to question the constitutionality of the All Writs Act«. But the US government had already announced its intention to appeal the resolution. The brief that they presented yesterday makes it clear that what they said was not a bluff.

It is clear that the debate continues on the table between those of us who want our data to be private at all costs and those who think that, at the very least, there must be a balance that allows law enforcement to catch criminals entering their devices. As I have said on different occasions, I am on the side of the former because in order for the data of a locked device to be accessed, the system must have a weak point that has been created on purpose. If there is a weak point, a malicious user will end up finding it and that is too dangerous for users. We will see how everything ends ... if it ends.