On January 15, US President trump sent a text on Twitter to bombard apple. Trump said that the US government had helped Apple on Trade and many other issues, but Apple refused to unlock the murderer's cell phone.
In his tweet, trump talked about the conflict between apple and the FBI and asked apple to cooperate with the FBI's investigation. The dispute between apple and the FBI is whether Apple has provided appropriate assistance to allow the FBI to unlock the iPhone of the suspect in the shooting at Pensacola naval base in Florida. Because the iPhone is password protected, the FBI cannot open it.
'we've been helping apple on Trade and many other issues, but they refuse to unlock the phones used by murderers, drug lords and other violent criminals. Now they must begin to act to help our great country. Let America be great again. " Trump said in his tweet.
Before trump shelled apple, US Attorney General Barr had expressed his dissatisfaction with apple. Barr said on Monday that apple did not provide 'substantive help' to unlock the suspect's two iPhones.
Apple responded in a statement late Monday that the company had provided law enforcement with several gigabytes of information related to the Pensacola shooting, but would not set up a 'back door' or special software for law enforcement to access.
In recent years, Apple CEO Tim & middot; Tim Cook has been cultivating friendly relations with trump so that he can influence him and avoid the impact of tariffs on apple. Last December, apple successfully avoided the impact of a tariff.
This is the second time Apple has been involved in an unlocking dispute with the FBI. In 2016, the U.S. Department of justice took apple to court and asked apple to help unlock said & middot, a San Bernardino shooter in California; Syed Farook's iPhone. The shooting killed 14 people. Finally, the FBI found an unidentified private company and cracked the iPhone's security system.
At that time, trump was running for president of the United States. He said: 'I fully support the court's decision. In this case, we should turn on the iPhone. "
When receiving a subpoena from the law enforcement department, Apple will regularly provide the law enforcement department with its server information. According to the statistics of Apple's website, since 2013, Apple has replied to more than 127000 information requests from law enforcement departments. Jane & middot, senior director of global privacy at Apple; Jane Horvath said earlier this month that Apple had established a team to respond to law enforcement inquiries day and night.
Apple has yet to comment on Trump's comments.
Here is the latest dispute between apple and the FBI
January 8 (Beijing time): the FBI said it had asked apple to assist in obtaining data on two iPhones. The two mobile phones belonged to Muhammad middot, a gunman who shot at Pensacola naval base in Florida last month; Said & middot; Mohammed Saeed alshamrani, he is dead. Apple said at the time that when the FBI asked last month, the company had provided the FBI with all the shooting related data they had.
January 14: U.S. attorney general Barr said that he had asked apple for assistance, but Apple has not given any substantive help so far.
January 14: Apple later countered that the company had answered all inquiries from law enforcement officials and handed over all information available to the company. Apple said the company received its first inquiry on January 6, but didn't receive a notice about the second iPhone until January 8. Apple also disclosed that the company's engineering team had recently held a conference call to provide additional technical assistance to the FBI.
January 15: trump shelled apple and asked apple to cooperate with the FBI investigation.