Суд обязал Apple помочь ФБР в разблокировании смартфона террориста, Apple больше не хочет помогать

APPLE INC’S MOTION TO VACATE ORDER COMPELLING APPLE INC. TO ASSIST AGENTS IN SEARCH, AND OPPOSITION TO GOVERNMENT’S MOTION TO COMPEL ASSISTANCE
Hearing:
Date: March 22, 2016
Time: 1:00 p.m.
Place: Courtroom 3 or 4
Judge: Hon. Sheri Pym

This is not a case about one isolated iPhone. Rather, this case is about the
Department of Justice and the FBI seeking through the courts a dangerous power that
Congress and the American people have withheld: the ability to force companies like
Apple to undermine the basic security and privacy interests of hundreds of millions of
individuals around the globe.…
The order demanded by the government compels Apple to create a new
operating system—effectively a “back door” to the iPhone—that Apple believes is too
dangerous to build. Specifically, the government would force Apple to create new
software with functions to remove security features and add a new capability to the
operating system to attack iPhone encryption, allowing a passcode to be input
electronically. This would make it easier to unlock the iPhone by “brute force,” trying
thousands or millions of passcode combinations with the speed of a modern computer.
In short, the government wants to compel Apple to create a crippled and insecure
product. Once the process is created, it provides an avenue for criminals and foreign
agents to access millions of iPhones. And once developed for our government, it is
only a matter of time before foreign governments demand the same tool.
The government says: “Just this once” and “Just this phone.” But the
government knows those statements are not true; indeed the government has filed
multiple other applications for similar orders, some of which are pending in other
courts.2
And as news of this Court’s order broke last week, state and local officials
publicly declared their intent to use the proposed operating system to open hundreds of
other seized devices—in cases having nothing to do with terrorism.3
If this order is permitted to stand, it will only be a matter of days before some other prosecutor, in
some other important case, before some other judge, seeks a similar order using this
case as precedent. Once the floodgates open, they cannot be closed, and the device
security that Apple has worked so tirelessly to achieve will be unwound without so
much as a congressional vote.