Apple owing many products and iPhone being one of the major product owns a major share in smart phone market. Recently Apple defended in court about its security mechanism.
iPhone has the first step of preventing unauthorised persons usage through the lock screen with the passcode or the biometric unlocking feature from iPhone 5s.
Few days back Apple was called by Federal Court for unlocking a iPhone by breaking the passcode set by the user. Apple strongly opposed that it can never break the encryption of the passcode.
Apple stated that once the user sets the passcode it serves as the key for encryption and once the users forgets or lose his iPhone it is not possible for others to unlock the phone by breaking the encryption.
Apple also stated that it can break the encryption if the iOS version is less than 8 which only less than 10 percent of total Apple devices. About 90 percent of Apple products are running iOS 8 or later and so it is impossible for them to break the encryption.
You might think that if the passcode is of four digits then the brute force attack can be made but that will not work on devices running iOS 8 or later.
Also there is a news that Apple shares some of the data with the Government agencies and in the letter from Apple, its CEO Tim Cook stated that "We are not allowing any Government agencies to access the users data and we never will".
By this Apple strongly defended the court that they cant break the encryption and this shows the privacy level provided by Apple to its users.
P.S : The post is to create awareness and not to create any negative impact.
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