The Apple CEO has responded to a ruling forcing the company to crack its own iPhone security in order to investigate last year's San Bernadino shooting.
Apple boss Tim Cook has publicly denounced an FBI request to build a new version of iOS he claims could potentially crack any iPhone, calling the request "chilling."
On Tuesday a judge ordered Apple to assist investigators in unlocking an iPhone linked to December's terrorist attack in San Bernadino, California. But in an open letter posted on the company's website, the Apple CEO warns that the proposed measures amount to the creation of a "backdoor" into encrypted devices that would "undermine the very freedoms and liberty our government is meant to protect."
According to Cook, "the US government has asked us for something we simply do not have, and something we consider too dangerous to create. They have asked us to build a backdoor to the iPhone."
Encryption is a huge source of tension between private technology companies and law enforcement agencies. Companies such as Apple, Google and WhatsApp protect the privacy of their customers by encrypting your data, often in a way that even the companies themselves cannot unscramble. Although that allows unscrupulous users such as criminals or terrorists to communicate in secret away from the prying eyes of government surveillance, tech companies justify such security measures by insisting that it's impossible to allow law enforcement agencies to crack encryption without opening the door for criminals to do the same.
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