---
id: 4263
title: "On Apple, Encryption, and Privacy"
source_domain: bishopfox.com
source_url: "https://bishopfox.com/blog/apple-encryption-and-privacy"
published_at: "2016-03-02T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["privacy", "ios", "apple", "encryption", "fbi", "san-bernardino"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/4263"
lang: en
---

# On Apple, Encryption, and Privacy

## Summary

On Apple's fight against a court order to decrypt a San Bernardino iPhone: how iOS 8+ ties encryption to the device key and passcode, and why a weakened iOS raises dangerous precedents.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** bishopfox.com
- **Published:** 2016-03-02T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://bishopfox.com/blog/apple-encryption-and-privacy
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/4263