Now that the FBI has dropped its case against Apple, a complete reversal of roles has suddenly emerged. Since the government agency was able to hack the iPhone of the alleged San Bernardino shooter, the tech giant is now demanding the hackers to tell them how they did it.
An LA Times report said that lawyers from the Cupertino, CA-based company are searching for ways they can legally force the government to disclose the method they used in hacking the iPhone.
On Monday, the FBI posted a filing which said: "The government has now successfully accessed the data stored on Farook's iPhone and therefore no longer requires the assistance from Apple Inc. mandated by Court's Order Compelling Apple Inc. to Assist Agents in Search dated February 16, 2016."
John Pironti, IP Architects said that this is the best and worst case scenario for the Cupertino, CA-based company.
"The best case scenario is that they can continue to say that they're doing everything they can do, and that they did not support law enforcement in this way," explained Pironti.
But the FBI was able to hack the iPhone and that means there is indeed a security flaw in the device. The fact that the FBI seems to be unwilling to share its secrets with the tech giant exacerbates its concerns.
And now Apple must find a way to force the FBI to reveal its secrets. The tech giant's legal filing in a federal court in California says its encryption "is designed to prevent anyone without the password from accessing encrypted data on iPhones."
But now, it turned out that its iPhones can be hacked after all. This is ominous to Apple since hackers all over the world now knows this fact and it doesn't take a genius' mind to say that they will take advantage of this.
Hackers of all types will have renewed desire to hack Apple iPhones since it was proven that hacking them is really possible.
In the aftermath of the battle between Apple and FBI, it can be seen who the victor is even if the government suddenly dropped its case against the tech giant.
