14 DAY TRIAL // The fight between Apple and the FBI over the hacking of an iPhone used by San Bernardino attackers continues, and both sides are using all available weapons to support their case.
This time, the Cupertino-based company has decided to publish a letter written by none other than the husband of the San Bernardino shooting survivor Anies Kondoker, who clearly explains that he doesn’t believe that breaking into the iPhone would help investigators.
In the letter published by Apple on its official website, Salihin Kondoker points out that there are only slight chances to find any valuable information on the iPhone because workers getting a phone from the County are rarely using it for personal communications.
No personal stuff on work iPhones
He goes on to explain that, just like Syed Rizwan Farook, one of the attackers at San Bernardino, his wife Anies also received an iPhone from the County Health Department, but she never used it for anything else than work-related stuff. So the chances are that the attackers did the same and destroyed any evidence that could lead investigators to other terrorists.
“San Bernardino is one of the largest Counties in the country. They can track the phone on GPS in case they needed to determine where people were. Second, both the iCloud account and carrier account were controlled by the county so they could track any communications,” he explains in the letter.
“This was common knowledge among my wife and other employees. Why then would someone store vital contacts related to an attack on a phone they knew the county had access to? They destroyed their personal phones after the attack. And I believe they did that for a reason.”
Certainly, there’s no guarantee that what Kondoker says is true, and the FBI wants to make sure that there’s no valuable information on the device, explaining that the iPhone could hold details that could help in the fight against terrorists.