Thursday, March 31, 2016

U.S. unlocks Iphone

The U.S ended the lawsuit against Apple after declaring that it has unlocked the Iphone and therefore no longer requires Apples support. This is a major move on the part of U.S because this declaration indirectly attacks Apple which is known for its security. This will damage consumer trust in the security of Iphone and Apple won't back off from such a threat. The friction between Apple and the US keeps increasing and this provocation does not help. If Apple decides to up its security after this then the US will have to find another way to unlock the Iphone and this security war between the U.S. is not beneficial.
I hope that the U.S and Apple can come to some tacit agreement and stop trying to out do each other. This way the consumers can relax and not have to worry about the U.S government trying to find ways to unlock their Iphones. I remember that security used to be more lax before hacker groups appeared and started exploiting the holes in security. Then at some period malware was created for one reason or another and caused mayhem to the systems. This led rise to the antimalware companies and alerted programmers that security in their programs is important. White hat hackers came into being to help security of a company and led to the war between hackers and cyber security today.
While the competitions have been happening for a long time this is the first time I have seen the government announce its involvement in unlocking phones.

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