"The encryption is so well done and so hard that they know they're not going to be able to break the encryption or they would have already done that," says Joseph Lorenzo Hall, chief technologist at the Center for Democracy and Technology. But some information, such as iMessages or WhatsApp messages, gets encrypted on the sender's phone and only gets decrypted when delivered, while other data, like photos, might never get shared with another device. Law enforcement can typically access some information shared through a phone - such as social media posts, Web searches, some emails and text messages - with a subpoena to telecom and tech companies. We don't know what, if anything, the phone contains. there may be relevant, critical communications and data around the time of the shooting that has thus far not been accessed. Malik had expressed support for the Islamic State on a Facebook page created under an alias, investigators say, but there are still many questions about who the two shooters might have communicated with before the attack, and what their motives were. In December, Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik attacked the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, Calif., with guns and explosives, killing 14 people before being killed themselves in a shootout with police. Whose phone are investigators trying to access? Here are a few key questions and answers about the dispute between the tech giant and federal investigators: Of course, it's more complicated than that. The critical combination? It's a passcode - one the FBI doesn't know, and one that Apple is reluctant to help the agency figure out.
Now replace the little safe with an iPhone, and instead of a secret message, it's holding evidence in a terrorism case.
#Cryptext on phones code
Remember the cryptex, the little handheld safe from The Da Vinci Code where entering the correct combination will reveal the secret message and entering the wrong one will destroy it? 9, 2015, in San Francisco to unveil the latest iterations of the company's smartphone.
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