科技巨头与美国政府的信息争夺战_时事

科技巨头与美国政府的信息争夺战

WASHINGTON — In an investigation involving gunsand drugs, the Justice Department obtained a court order this summer demanding that Appleturn over, in real time, text messages between suspects using iPhones.

华盛顿——今年夏天，在一起涉及枪支和毒品的调查中，美国司法部获得了法院命令，要求苹果(Apple)实时提交使用iPhone的嫌疑人之间的短信。

Apple’s response: Its iMessage system was encrypted and the company could not comply.

苹果的回应是：iMessage系统是加密的，所以公司无法提交。

Government officials had warned for months that this type of standoff was inevitable astechnology companies like Apple and Google embraced tougher encryption. The case, comingafter several others in which similar requests were rebuffed, prompted some senior JusticeDepartment and F.B.I. officials to advocate taking Apple to court, several current and formerlaw enforcement officials said.

在此之前的多个月里，政府官员就不断发出警告：随着苹果、谷歌(Google)等科技公司开始采用更加严格的加密方案，这种僵局是不可避免的。一些现任和前任执法人员表示，在此案发生之前，还有其他几次类似的要求也遭到拒绝，导致司法部和联邦调查局(FBI)的一些高级官员主张把苹果公司告上法庭。

While that prospect has been shelved for now, the Justice Department is engaged in a courtdispute with another tech company, Microsoft. The case, which goes before a federal appealscourt in New York on Wednesday and is being closely watched by industry officials and civilliberties advocates, began when the company refused to comply with a warrant in December2013 for emails from a drug trafficking suspect. Microsoft said federal officials would have toget an order from an Irish court, because the emails were stored on servers in Dublin.