Nick Storm
02/19/2016 07:41 PM
LEXINGTON — As the U.S. Department of Justice seeks to force Apple to comply with an FBI order to help the agency crack an encrypted iPhone used by one of the attackers in the San Bernardino, Calif., massacre, U.S. Sen. Rand Paul says the tech giant should not have to comply.
Apple has strongly opposed the court-ordered request from the FBI to open the phone, which is linked to the attack in California that killed 14 people Dec. 2.
“What’s extraordinary about this warrant, or this court order, is that they’re asking Apple to devise a way into the phone when no such system exists currently,” Paul said. “So this would be an extraordinary warrant because they’re compelling Apple to become part of the police force and think up something new.”
Paul warned that some think that the move would be a violation of First Amendment rights, and he said that “we ought to think twice before we decide we’re going to be compelling phone companies to come up with things like this.”
Kentucky’s junior U.S. senator also warned that “weakening” the codeware by creating a backdoor into the phone would make more people vulnerable to attack by “hackers and thieves.”
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