美國政府不再要求蘋果解鎖iPhone

The FBI has abandoned its attempt to force Apple to help it break into the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone, after it found another way to access the device’s contents without the company’s help.

美國聯邦調查局(FBI)放棄了迫使蘋果(Apple)幫它解鎖聖貝納迪諾槍擊案兇手iPhone的企圖，原因是它找到了別的辦法、無需蘋果幫忙就能訪問這部移動設備的內容。

The Move ends a high-stakes stand-off between the iPhone maker and the US government but in a statement, the Department of Justice left open the door to future legal clashes with Silicon Valley over encryption and data security.

此舉爲這家iPhone製造商與美國政府之間利害攸關的對峙畫上了句號。不過，在一份聲明中，美國司法部(DoJ)並未排除未來與硅谷在加密和數據安全問題上發生法律衝突的可能性。

On Monday afternoon, Judge Sheri Pym of the Central District of California granted the DoJ’s request to vacate the court order she granted a month and a half ago.

週一下午，美國加利福尼亞中區(Central District of California)法院的謝里•皮姆法官(Judge Sheri Pym)批准了美國司法部申請撤銷她一個半月前授予的法庭令的請求。

The order had required Apple to write new software that would prevent the iPhone from wiping its contents as investigators made repeated attempts to guess the passcode that locked away its contents.

該法庭令要求蘋果編寫新的軟件，以便在調查人員反覆嘗試猜出上述iPhone的密碼、以訪問其內容時，能防止該手機抹去其上存儲的內容。

The device in question was used by Syed Rizwan Farook, who along with his wife Tashfeen Malik killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California, last December.

此案所涉的這部手機曾被賽義德•里茲萬•法魯克(Syed Rizwan Farook)使用。去年12月，他與妻子塔什費恩•馬利克(Tashfeen Malik)在加州聖貝納迪諾殺害了14個人。

Apple had vigorously resisted the order, claiming that it would involve creating a “back door” that would weaken the security and privacy of all iPhone owners. Many Silicon Valley companies had rallied behind Apple as it contested the legal and constitutional basis for the demand.

蘋果堅決抵制這一法庭令，稱這是在要求它創建一個會損害所有iPhone用戶安全和隱私的“後門”。在蘋果駁斥這一要求的法律和憲法依據時，許多硅谷企業紛紛對蘋果予以支持。

A week ago, on the eve of a hearing before Judge Pym to debate the case, the government unexpectedly asked for the courtroom session to be delayed for up to two weeks.

一週前，就在皮姆法官將舉行聽證會就此案展開辯論的前夜，美國政府出人意料地要求將庭審推遲最多兩週。

Despite initially arguing that the “assistance sought can only be provided by Apple”, the FBI said that an outside party had approached it with a potential way to break into the device. The unnamed group was prompted to come forward by the huge publicity surrounding the case, it said.

儘管FBI最初辯稱“只有蘋果才能提供（我們）所尋求的幫助”，但該局後來表示，一家第三方機構與它進行了接觸，該機構擁有破解這部手機的可能手段。FBI稱，這家不具名機構是因此案引發的巨大轟動而決定站出來的。

Little more than a week later, the unspecified new technique proved successful.

過了大約一週的時間，這種不明新技術被證明取得了成功。

“The government has now successfully accessed the data stored on Farook’s iPhone and therefore no longer requires the assistance from Apple” that had been mandated by February’s court order, the government wrote in a filing on Monday.

美國政府在週一提交的一份文件中寫道：“政府現已成功訪問了法魯克iPhone上存儲的數據，因此不再要求蘋果提供援助。”2月份的那項法庭令命令蘋果提供這種援助。

The DoJ added in a statement that the FBI was “currently reviewing the information on the phone”, which investigators hope might provide clues to the couple’s links to terrorist groups.

美國司法部在一份聲明中補充稱，FBI“正在審查這部手機上的信息”。調查人員希望，這些信息或許能提供有關法魯克夫婦與恐怖組織之間聯繫的線索。