IPhone could ID unknown San Bernardino attacker , prosecutor says

IPhone could ID unknown San Bernardino attacker , prosecutor says, Information independent in an encrypted iPhone could advice assuredly acknowledgment whether there was a third aggressor in the San Bernardino alarm advance that dead 14 people, according to cloister affidavit filed by the county's commune attorney.

San Bernardino Badge Arch Jarrod Burguan said Friday that the catechism of a third antagonist has nagged board admitting no acknowledging evidence.

"We've never been able to absolutely annihilate it," he said. "We apperceive we accept some assemblage that said they anticipation they saw three ... some saw two, some saw one. The majority said two, and the affirmation we accept up to this point alone supports two."

Still, he said board would like to definitively acknowledgment the question, and unlocking the buzz could advice do that.

Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, opened blaze Dec. 2 at an anniversary training of his San Bernardino County co-workers. They died hours after in a shootout with police. The 14 humans dead apparent the deadliest alarm advance on U.S. clay back Sept. 11, 2001.

In a abrupt filed in federal cloister Thursday, San Bernardino County Commune Advocate Michael Ramos cited two 911 calls advertisement three perpetrators during the attack.

"The advice independent alone on the bedeviled iPhone could accommodate affirmation to analyze as of yet alien co-conspirators ..." according to Ramos' brief.

The abrupt aswell appropriate that the county-owned iPhone acclimated by Farook may accept alien a "lying-dormant cyber pathogen" endangering the county's computer network.

Burguan said he's never heard that approach and knew of no problems.

Such a backside is technically accessible but unlikely, said David Meltzer, a computer aegis able and arch analysis administrator at TripWire, a bartering IT aegis firm.

If an agent capital to acquaint awful software into the county's network, Meltzer said they would be added acceptable to use a desktop or laptop PC because it's easier to download and dispense awful cipher on a PC's operating system.

The commune advocate is a part of abounding belief in on the action amid Apple and the government advanced of a March 22 audition in which Apple is allurement a adjudicator to about-face an adjustment acute the aggregation to actualize a software affairs that overrides iPhone aegis features.

Apple says unlocking Farook's buzz would accomplish all added iPhones added accessible to approaching attacks.

In a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook cited in addition cloister brief, Mark Sandefur — the ancestor of one of the men dead in the alarm advance — aswell cited letters of three attackers, adage the buzz have to be unlocked.

"Several of the survivors acquaint me bone-chilling belief of area they were, and what they saw," Sandefur wrote. "Some of them call in absolute detail, laying on the floor, ambuscade beneath appliance and the bodies of their co-workers, that they saw three assailants, not two, walking about in abundant boots as they agitated out their murders.

"What if there is affirmation pointing to a third shooter?" Sandefur wrote. "What if it leads to an alien agitator cell? What if others are attacked, and you and I did annihilation to anticipate it?"

Among those abetment Apple are civilian liberties advocates and some of the company's better competitors, including Google, Microsoft and Facebook.

The endure of the 22 actual victims of the advance was appear from the hospital Thursday, the Press Enterprise reported.
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