If the FBI wins, it could ask Apple for the iOS source code

The United States Department of Justice is not willing to give its arm to twist in the case that it keeps open with Apple to be able to access the content of any device. According The Guardian, FBI has found a new method to pressure the Cupertino company: threatening to ask for iOS source code (or so I see it) if Appe finally loses the San Bernardino bombings case.

According to The Guardian, the Department of Justice has already considered this possibility in a formal response to Apple, explaining that if Tim Cook and company refuse to create software that could give you access to the iPhone, there is no other possible way than to ask for the source code of the operating system. But why make this request now? If we think about it, this seems like a bluff from someone who doesn't have good cards in a poker game: they lie, they bet high and, whoever had the upper hand, gets scared and abandons the game so as not to lose.

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Tim Cook already said that he did not want the same Apple engineers who had improved iPhone security to spoil the work they had done in recent years, so the FBI would ask for the iOS source code to do the work themselves. .

The FBI cannot modify Farook's iPhone software itself without access to the source code and Apple's private electronic signature […] The Government did not seek to force Apple to do so because it believed that such a request would be less acceptable to Apple. However, if Apple prefers that path, it must provide a less labor-intensive alternative for Apple programmers.

In any case, as I said above, I think this request is a bluff from someone who knows he has worse cards in this game, as has been demonstrated in the first round in court, where Apple won because law enforcement cannot use the All Writs Act for this case. As I always say, I hope this is the case and that our private data remains private.