US government asks Apple to help it brute-force iOS security
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Apple often touts the security and privacy benefits of its iOS platform. The company takes a variety of measures to ensure that users' data is protected, like device encryption that's on by default and a trusted chain of execution to ensure the integrity of Apple software running on a phone or tablet. Problem is, suspected criminals use iOS devices, too, and law enforcement agencies in the United States have long desired an easy way around those privacy protections.
Apple has steadfastly resisted building that sort of skeleton key or backdoor into iOS, because it's generally understood that building backdoors into cryptosystems ...