As the United States government has laid pressure on technology
companies to provide backdoor access to encryption, Apple has
consistently fought back.
Today in a New York court, Apple told a federal magistrate judge that the company could not unlock iPhones running iOS 8 or higher even if it wanted to.
Apple called the request to access an encrypted iPhone “impossible to
perform” on more than 90 percent of devices running iOS 8 and up.
iOS 8 implemented new default data encryption in
response to the NSA’s widespread monitoring programs and said in 2014
that as of the release the company could no longer circumvent the lock.
Apple did, however, admit, that it can unlock the remaining ten percent
that are still using “old” systems but urged the judge to avoid forcing
Apple to comply with the Justice Department’s request.
The next hearing is set for Thursday this week, but it’s likely this
isn’t going to be the end of this saga, as authorities desperately
tussle over forcing companies to add a ‘golden key’ for government
access to data.
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