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Apple's challenge of a court order to unlock an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino killers opens up a new front in the long-running battle between technology companies and the government over encryption.PHOTO: KENA BETANCUR/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Granting the FBI access to the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone would set a precedent that could be used “on over 175 phones,” Apple plans to tell the House Judiciary Committee Tuesday. Bruce Sewell, Apple general counsel, will testify in a hearing called “Balancing Americans’ Security and Privacy,” and Re/code has released Sewell’s prepared speech ahead of the meeting.
Sewell will reference comments from Manhattan district attorney Cyrus Vance, who said in aninterview with NPR that his cyber lab cannot access 175 phones out of a total 670 phones being held. Vance said that he wants Apple to unlock phones “when there is a court order by an independent judge” that proves it is necessary.
The FBI want access to the iPhone 5C of Syed Farook, who along with Tashfeen Malik shot and killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California, back in December, before both died in a shootout with police. The FBI asked Apple to develop software that could help authorities get past the phone’s passcode, but Apple worries that this will set a precedent and undermine iPhone security.
“As we have told them — and as we have told the American public — building that software tool would not affect just one iPhone. It would weaken the security for all of them,” Sewell will say.
The speech ends by asking three questions: whether the FBI can make a company develop a product that did not exist before, whether the FBI can stop tech firms from making the most secure products possible and whether Americans want to put a limit on how secure tech can be.
Apple is planning to introduce a new iPhone on March 21, according to BuzzFeed. The following day, the company is scheduled to meet with the FBI in federal court at Riverside, California.
The timing of the event may seem unfortunate, but analysts told International Business Times that they don’t expect the controversy to impact sales of the four-inch device expected later this month, nor is it likely to hurt sales of the anticipated iPhone 7 later in the year.
By Favour Nnabugwu The Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, has said the the country spends a total of $2 billion annually to import agricultural products into the country. Amaechi disclosed this to journalists during an inspection tour from Rigasa rail station in Kaduna to Idu Station in Abuja last Friday. Rotimi Amaechi Even as the world’s 7th largest population in the world at a base line of 170million, the Minister said agriculture is an exceptionally important element of Nigeria’s economy. Amaechi went to say that the large import of food products include wheat, rice, flour, fish, tomato paste, eggs, textile and sugar. The Minister however, stressed the need to diversify the mono-cultural tendencies of the Nigerian economy by developing other sectors of the economy especially agriculture. “Major agricultural imports are wheat, rice and sugar. Most agricultural imports come from the US and the EU. The country’s main agricultural exports are cocoa beans, rubber, ...
By Babajide Komolafe President Muhammadu Buhari presenting the 2017 Budget before a joint session of the National Assembly on Wednesday, December 14, 2016. LAGOS — In spite of increase in federally-collected revenue, buoyed by increase in crude oil price, the Federal Government recorded a deficit of N404 billion for the month of February, 2017. The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, disclosed this in its economic report for February posted on its website, yesterday, indicating another threat to the budget. The report among other things showed that banks borrowed N4.2 trillion from the apex bank during the month, while they paid N3.2 billion as interest to the apex bank. The report stated: “The estimated Federal Government retained revenue for the month of February 2017, at N194.38 billion, was below the 2017 provisional monthly budget estimate of N337.48bn and the receipts in January 2017 by 42.4 per cent and 5.9 per cent, respectively. Of the total receipt, ...
By Emeka Aginam While the ongoing 2016 Mobile World Congress , MWC, is in full swing in Barcelona, Spain, the GSMA yesterday announced that the number of active mobile money accounts worldwide now exceeded 130 million, with more than 100 million new registered users added in 2015. According to the latest report on the state of financial services worldwide, there were 1 billion mobile money transactions in December 2015 at around 33 million per day which is more than double the amount PayPal processed globally. With 411 million registered mobile money users during the time in question, according the GSMA report, there were at least 19 countries with more mobile oney accounts than bank accounts According the report, with 30 services with more than 1 million active users, only 5 of those services actually have more than 5 million active users. The report also added that there were 271 active services in 93 countries. The figure the report said is more than the number of officially...
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