Apple CEO Tim Cook has sent a memo to all employees explaining why the company is resisting an FBI request to decrypt an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters.
The memo was obtained by BuzzFeed's John Paczkowski. In it, Cook says the FBI should withdraw its demand to have the Cupertino, California, company develop a tool to help it break into the iPhone: "At stake is the data security of hundreds of millions of law-abiding people, and setting a dangerous precedent that threatens everyone's civil liberties," he writes.
A court last week ordered Apple to comply, but the company is challenging the order. The FBI says it needs to access the phone's encrypted data to find more about the killers (and to potentially avoid future attacks), while Apple argues that complying would create a dangerous precedent.
Apple is calling for the government to launch a commission of experts to examine the effects of encryption technology on law enforcement.
"We feel the best way forward would be for the government to withdraw its demands under the All Writs Act and, as some in Congress have proposed, form a commission or other panel of experts on intelligence, technology and civil liberties to discuss the implications for law enforcement, national security, privacy and personal freedoms," Cook writes to employees. "Apple would gladly participate in such an effort."
Apple and the FBI have been trading public barbs since the court order last week. Cook began by publishing an open letter to Apple's website warning that complying would make users less safe.
Source: Business Insider.
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