Attorney General William Barr said the FBI cracked the iPhone encryption of the Saudi gunman who killed three U.S. sailors in a December attack at a naval base in Florida and found evidence linking him to al Qaeda
The shooter, Second Lieutenant Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, 21, also wounded eight people before being killed by law enforcement during the Dec. 6, 2019 attack.
The Justice Department succeeded in unlocking the encryption on the shooter’s iPhone after Apple Inc declined to do so, Barr told reporters on a conference call. Apple later disputed his version, saying it cooperated to the extent that its technology allowed.Barr called on Congress to take action forcing Apple and other tech companies to help law enforcement agencies get through encryption during criminal investigations.
Apple said: “It is because we take our responsibility to national security so seriously that we do not believe in the creation of a backdoor — one which will make every device vulnerable to bad actors,” Apple said in a statement. “There is no such thing as a backdoor just for the good guys, and the American people do not have to choose between weakening encryption and effective investigations.”
Prior to the shooting spree, the shooter posted criticism of U.S. wars and quoted slain al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden on social media.
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