蘋果公司拒絕幫助FBI解鎖兇犯iPhone
Apple Inc opposed a court ruling on Tuesday that ordered it to help the FBI break into an iPhone recovered from a San Bernardino shooter, heightening a dispute between tech companies and law enforcement over the limits of encryption.
蘋果公司上週二對聯邦法院的一項裁決提出異議。法院裁決蘋果應協助聯邦調查局入侵聖貝納迪諾槍擊案兇犯的手機。這也使得這家科技公司和執法機構關於解密權的爭論達到了白熱化。A public letter, signed by Apple CEO Tim Cook and published Tuesday, warns that complying with the order would entail building "a backdoor to the iPhone". Such a move would threaten the security of Apple's customers, it said.
蘋果CEO蒂姆·庫克的一封署名公開信也於上週二發佈，信中警告稱，遵循這項指令將牽涉到爲iPhone預留後門，此舉將威脅蘋果用戶的安全。Earlier on Tuesday, Judge Sheri Pym of U.S. District Court in Los Angeles said that Apple must provide "reasonable technical assistance" to investigators seeking to unlock the data on an iPhone 5C that had been owned by Syed Rizwan Farook.
在週二的早些時候，洛杉磯地區法院法官雪莉·皮姆做出裁決，要求蘋果公司必須向解鎖賽義德·里茲萬·法魯克iPhone 5C手機數據的調查人員提供“合理的技術援助”。
That assistance includes disabling the phone's auto-erase function, which activates after 10 consecutive unsuccessful passcode attempts, and helping investigators to submit passcode guesses electronically.
據悉，要求蘋果公司提供的技術援助包括暫停“自動擦除”功能，允許調查人員通過電子手段提交猜測的密碼等。“自動擦除”功能會在連續10次輸入錯誤密碼後激活。Syed Farook and his wife killed 14 people in the December shooting before both were killed by police. Investigators had obtained permission to retrieve data from the phone but had been unable to search the device as it had been locked with a user-generated numeric passcode.
去年12月，賽義德·法魯克夫婦二人制造的槍擊案導致14人遇難，之後二人被警方擊斃。調查人員已獲准從兇犯手機檢索數據，但由於手機被用戶設定的數字密碼鎖住，他們無法檢索設備。The FBI has been investigating the couple's potential communications with Islamic State and other militant groups. "Apple has the exclusive technical means which would assist the government in completing its search, but has declined to provide that assistance voluntarily," prosecutors said. U.S. government officials have warned that the expanded use of strong encryption is hindering national security and criminal investigations.
FBI正在調查這對夫妻是否和“伊斯蘭國”以及其他武裝組織有聯繫。檢察官稱：“蘋果有獨特的技術手段可以幫助政府完成搜查，但是蘋果公司拒絕提供幫助。”美國政府官員已經對此發出警告稱，高級加密的廣泛使用已經妨礙了國家安全以及犯罪調查。In a letter to customers posted on Apple's website, Cook said the FBI wanted the company "to build a backdoor to the iPhone" by making a new version of the iPhone operating system that would circumvent several security features.
在蘋果官網公佈的一封致用戶公開信中，總裁庫克表示，FBI要求公司爲其建立“通向iPhone的後門”，具體做法是通過創建一個可繞過幾項安全措施的新iPhone操作系統。
