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Why FBI needs Apple’s Help to Bypass a Simple 4 Number Security Code

When we watch the Hollywood movies, we see the agents doing some crazy hack stuff. They are hacking camera systems, cell phones or any ultra secured facilities systems. But looks like hacking an iPhone or an Android device is not one of them.

That is why; FBI is asking Apple to hack the phone of the shooter in San Bernadino. But Tim Cook said, ” The government is asking Apple to hack our users… not only the shooter” And, added they will not hack their users’ devices. Yes, I think many of agree that people who connected with the shooting should be found and arrest, but users and Apple don’t want to do it with hacking an iPhone. We all know, if the manufacturers leave a backdoor in any smart device in the future government might use this for bad purposes or other people can access to our phones and steals our valuable data.

But, how the government that has lots of agents, super computers, and the NSA, can not pass one simple four digit code – which is mostly birthday or 1234-. The problem is this code is the only way to the safe, even there not too many possibilities they can’t able to access the data. The reason is; if you enter the passcode wrong couple of times, iPhone makes you wait for a while, and after you enter the wrong code again, the device erases every data in the memory.

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Don’t think that Apple can access your data in seconds, they can not, but the company holds a set of keys which won’t unlock the device but allow them to modify the vault’s locking mechanism and make the changes that allow the FBI open the luck.

The shooter had an iPhone 5c. iPhone’s passcode used to be passed by using a method called ” brute-force attack”. Which is keep trying every possible passcode, after several wrong attempt device lock itself and make you wait for a while after it is active you try again, and this goes on and on. But with the new models including 5c. After several wrong entry, devices erase all the data. So that is not what FBI wants, they want to use ” brute-force attack ” on the device and requiring Apple to change how this security system works.

So this is what Tim Cook against. The company doesn’t want to give access to their costumers’ smart devices. And including Google and many regular users supporting Tim Cook because of his decision on this issue. And many of users thinks, it supposed to be this way. Users who against this back door are not supporting criminals, drug lords or any terrorist. They just want some privacy in their life, and they have a right to want this.

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