The US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, said he opposes the establishment of technology “back doors” that allow the government access to encrypted data from personal phones and other devices.
points Pentagon chief of view come amid a legal battle between Apple and the FBI, which is trying to force the tech giant to help unlock an iPhone used by one of the shooters of San Bernardino attacks last December .
“just to get to the point, I do not believe in ‘backdoors’ or give only a technical approach to what is a complex and complicated problem,” Carter said at a technology event in San Francisco on Wednesday, according to a transcript.
“There is no single answer,” he added Carter. “I do not think we should let a case leads us to draw a conclusion or an overall solution.”
The FBI said he did not want to enable a back door for all devices, but asks for help from Apple for the password that locks the iPhone Syed Farook, who with his wife, the Pakistani Tashfeen Malik , shot and killed 14 people in the Californian city of San Bernardino.
Apple argues that the FBI is asking for the company to pirate their own devices and create a back door that malicious actors could explore.
The refusal of Apple to help the FBI sparked intense political debate about the encrypted devices.
the request of the FBI generated expressions of concern of many players in the technology industry, estimated to yield to the request of the authorities could lead to a series of similar requests.
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