Cook responded to Trump: Apple will not leave any backdoors for the iPhone

At Apple’s annual shareholder meeting, Cook publicly stated that Apple defended its decision not to introduce “backdoors” into its products. This backdoor allows law enforcement agencies to obtain information from the device during criminal investigations.

At Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, California, Cook said: “We oppose this description. For the request we received, we have provided all the information in hand. Please do not assume that we have not provided assistance.”

Apple and the US Department of Justice are in a stalemate because of allegations that the company did not provide assistance to the Department of Justice in the Pensacola case. Because Apple encrypts the devices it produces, law enforcement agencies cannot fully obtain the contents of the devices, and this information may be of great value for investigations.

In January of this year, US President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr both called on Apple to provide assistance in the investigation. Barr previously stated that Apple did not provide any “substantial assistance” during the investigation of this case.

The US government is currently seeking to unlock an iPhone belonging to the 21-year-old gunman Mohammed Alshamrani (Mohammed Alshamrani), hoping that the content can provide more details of the investigation.

Apple said that they have provided all data on the gunman’s iCloud account to the US government. But the US government said that the data provided by Apple is far from enough. They need to unlock the gunman’s iPhone through a special back door that allows law enforcement agencies to easily crack the iPhone’s encryption.