Has FBI VS Apple Inc. Met Its End

The biggest legal battle between the world most powerful government and the world most valuable company has been temporarily halted.

Last week, the requisition of the FBI to postpone the hearing astonished almost everybody. However, the recent approach of the law enforcement agency cannot settle the future of searches under the Fourth Amendment.

Last month, the FBI requested the court to motion Apple Inc. to help it to get access into the phone of a shooter involved in the San Bernardino attacks as all of its resources have been exhausted. However, the Cupertino Calif. firm declined to comply with court orders and claimed that the company’s compliance will create a “backdoor” access to all the iPhones across the world putting the privacy and security of hundreds of thousands of users in jeopardy.

But, last week, the FBI requested to postpone the hearing on the grounds that it had contacted an outsider third party which will more likely provide the extent of the access initially required from the tech titan. The identity of the third party is still undisclosed however, John McAfee –who openly offered the FBI to provide the hacking services –has indicated that he isn’t the outside third party.

Nevertheless, the strong matter of striking the balance between government fight against the terrorism and the privacy and the security of the citizens remain unresolved. According to the most recent news, the tech titan is actively involved in bolstering up its encryption which might make the devices and services completely inaccessible to the law enforcement. The latest Brussels terrorists’ attacks however have ignited the citizens who want the “bad guys” to do the time of their crime. Therefore, Apple has to be more honest in relation to its corporate strategy.

When the Justice Department blamed the world’s most valuable of intentionally changing the iPhone security to create a deterrent for the law enforcement to which the company’s general counsel Bruce Sewell marked the DOJ claim as “deeply offensive.” Quite contrary, when the changes in operating systems were first announced in 2014, the iPhone maker had boasted to its customers that unlike its rivals the tech giant now doesn’t have the ability to bypass the phone’s passcode and get access to the users’ data. The company quoted, “So it’s not technically feasible for us to respond to government warrants.”

During an interview with Time magazine, Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, regarded the concerns of the FBI as “a crock.” He also said that the law enforcement agencies shouldn’t be obsessed on “what’s not available” however it should find out alternative ways for preventing the terrorism.

The DOJ had earlier remarked that it will disclose its result in early April. Apple Inc. had earlier reported that if the authorities get successful in unlocking the iPhone then the tech titan will like to review the methods used in order to comprehend the susceptibility of the smartphones. The legal battle between the FBI and the tech giant has temporarily paused but it hasn’t ended yet.

Moreover, multiple hackers have actively started creating a key which can easily access into the phone in order to offer their invention to the government. By the next month, more aspects of the legal battle will be uncovered.