Expert: Apple vows to resist FBI demand to crack iPhone
"Tech giant Apple and the FBI appeared headed for a deepening confrontation Wednesday after the company鈥檚 chief pledged to fight federal demands to help mine data from an iPhone used by one of the shooters in December鈥檚 terrorist attacks in San Bernardino." ()
,聽Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, 平特五不中
"Lowering the security protection of any device implies increasing the risk of being hacked. This goes against the public interest. The FBI needs to figure out聽how to do it via other channels, but I do not see why Apple should lower the security standard of their products."
-Benjamin Fung
Dr. Benjamin Fung is a聽Canada Research Chair聽in Data Mining for Cybersecurity and a Research Scientist in the National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance Canada (). He has over 90 refereed publications that span the research areas of data mining, privacy protection, cyberforensics, services computing, and building engineering. His data mining works in聽crime investigation and authorship analysis have been reported by聽media worldwide.
Email only:聽ben [dot] fung [at] mcgill [dot] ca. (English)