CEO Mark Zuckberg supports opponents of the US court order regarding the iPhone of San Bernardino shooter.
Apple’s battle with the FBI regarding the iPhone of a San Bernardino killer has intensified on a daily basis. The American consumer electronics manufacturer isn’t alone in its fight. Today, CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg supported Apple at the event ‘Mobile World Congress’ held in Spain.
“We’re sympathetic with Apple on this one. We believe in encryption,” he stated while being interviewed on stage by senior writer of WIRED, Jessi Hempel.
Although Mark noted that the social network organization is glad about collaboration with the American government to fight against terrorism, he told weakening the users’ security is not the way to act in this manner.
Mark is not the only tech leader to support Apple. On February 17, 2016, Google CEO Sundar Pichai also supported it in his tweets after CEO Tim Cook posted an explanation for negating the request of the government.
“We build secure products to keep your information safe and we give law enforcement access to data based on valid legal orders,” Sundar tweeted. Sundar was referring to the particular order issued by the court on February 16, 2016 by a federal judge.
The magistrate did not ordered Apple to unlock the smartphone – which the organization is not able to do – but rather for writing a special software program, a crippled version of operating system that would eliminate specific safety protections, which were part of the phone software to safeguard customer data.
On that note, Mark took the side of Apple which is opposing the court order. He said that it does not differ from the controversial backdoor which the FBI is compelling the company to make a part of their software – except in this situation, it is an after-market backdoor to be selectively used on smartphones investigated by the government.
The judge gave five days to Apple to officially respond to her ruling, but before the company could act in this manner, the US government filed a second appeal asking the court not to wait for 5 days but instead, force it to act according to the order now.
Tim emailed Apple workers this morning that the case is regarding much more than a single investigation or a single phone. RT reported that computer programming specialist, John McAfee, spoke to RT in an interview that the FBI would need to gun every Apple programmer’s head to attain what they are interested in getting, and that everyone who has understood the matter supports Apple.
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