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Saturday, February 20, 2016

Apple vs. U.S. Government: An information security perspective

Information security is in the news again - this time for a completely different reason than normal. There's not a huge company that got hacked. There's no hacktivist group threatening to DDOS a company that threatens their beliefs. No - this is completely different. And it's far more important than many people realize.

In the aftermath of the San Bernardino shooting in December 2015, where 14 people were killed and 22 were seriously injured in a terrorist attack, the United States government has engaged in a legal battle with Apple. The government wants Apple to craft a new operating system for the iPhone of the terrorist responsible for the shootings in the name of threat intelligence. While this seems similar to a warrant for information, this is entirely different. Why? Because Apple doesn't own that information.