And Software Transparency

And Software Transparency
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The Apple versus FBI showdown has quickly become a crucial flashpoint of the “new Crypto War.” On February 16 the FBI invoked the All Writs Act of 1789, a catch-all authority for assistance of law enforcement, demanding that Apple create a custom version of its iOS to help the FBI decrypt an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters. The fact that the FBI allowed Apple to disclose the order publicly, on the same day, represents a rare exception to the government’s normal penchant for secrecy.
The reasons behind the FBI’s unusually with battery such as Juniper 12523 Battery, Juniper LHJBT-H11U Battery, Juniper VSH-H11U Battery, Juniper Allegro CX Battery, Juniper VR-151 Battery, Juniper GP VR151 Battery, Juniper Allegro MX Battery, Juniper Maxell M3614 Battery, Juniper Polaroid PR-632 Battery, Juniper AMX-1 Battery, Juniper AMX-2 Battery, Juniper AMX-5 Batteryloud entrance are important – but even more so is the risk that after the present flurry concludes, the FBI and other government agencies will revert to more shadowy methods of compelling companies to backdoor their software. This blog post explores these software transparency risks, and how new technical measures could help ensure that the public debate over software backdoors remains public.
Apple and other technology companies regularly comply with government orders for data in their possession. The controversial order’s key distinction, however, is that the data is not in Apple’s posession but on an encrypted iPhone, and the order requires Apple to create new software to help the FBI circumvent that iPhone’s security. While Apple is probably technically able to comply with the FBI’s order, it is fighting the order on the grounds that “the government demands that Apple create a back door to defeat the encryption on the iPhone, making its users’ most confidential and personal information vulnerable to hackers, identity thieves, hostile foreign agents, and unwarranted government surveillance.”
Indeed, demanding that a private company create a new forensic instrument to the government’s order, weakening the security of Apple’s own devices and exposing their users’ innermost secrets, may violate the first amendment. At any rate, the order is “like asking General Motors to build a new truck with a fifth wheel by next month.”
The FBI could probably create their own backdoored version of iOS. However, Apple’s devices accept only software updates digitally signed with a secret key that presumably only Apple controls. Presumably. We’ll come back to that.