FBI破解了IPhone

The FBI and Apple spent weeks yelling and screaming at each other over a cell phone, mimicking parents and teenagers everywhere. But the showdown between the government and the maker of iPhones went a lot deeper than some teen Snapchatting at the dinner table. It brought up topics like privacy rights, government overreach and the very real threat of terrorism.

聯邦調查局和蘋果已經因為一部手機的問題鬧了好幾個星期了, 簡直就像父母與孩子們的爭吵一般。 但是政府和 iphone 制造商之間的矛盾顯然比孩子們與父母在餐桌上的爭吵更深刻。由此，一些問題——諸如隱私權、政府過度影響以及恐怖主義的真實威脅等話題，都浮出水面。

In the end — or at least the end of this chapter — the FBI won, cracking the iPhone (with the help of some real hackers) belonging to one of the shooters in the San Bernardino terrorist attack and gaining access to its data.

在此回合中，美國聯邦調查局(FBI)贏得了勝利, 他們成功地破解了 iPhone (在一些黑客的幫助下) , 并獲取了其數據。

The successful break-in brought up even more questions. Who was right? What did the G-men find on the phone? What are they going to do with it? Will they share their break-in methods with anyone else? What's Apple's next move?

這次成功的非法闖入引發(fā)了更多的問題。 誰才是對的?他們在電話里發(fā)現了什么? 他們又要用它做什么? 他們會和其他人分享他們的黑入方式嗎? 蘋果的下一步行動是什么，準備如何應對?

The most pressing question, though, might be this: How the heck did they do it?

但最緊迫的問題莫過于: FBI到底是怎么做到的?

"Technically ...," says Robert Siciliano, an identity theft expert with BestIDTheftCompanys.com and an expert on mobile phone security, "I don't know. More than likely, we will know. Eventually. And that's the problem. That's the issue that Apple has had with this whole process."

Best id theft companys網站的身份盜竊專家、移動電話安全專家羅伯特·西西里亞諾(Robert Siciliano)表示,"我目前并不清楚，雖然我們最終可能還是會知道。這也就是蘋果在本次事件中遇到的問題。"

An NBC News report says that an Israeli firm called Cellebrite helped crack the phone for the FBI. And even though its methodology is still secret, the secret is now out: It can be done. And sooner or later, as Siciliano suggests, the word on how to do it will leak out. The FBI already has said it'll help other law enforcement agencies with locked phones.

美國全國廣播公司新聞報道說, 一家名叫 Cellebrite 的以色列公司在此次幫助了聯邦調查局的破解工作。 即使它的方法仍是個秘密, 但我們現在都知道了: iPhone可以被破解，也已經被破解了。 就像西西里亞諾所認為的那樣, 這遲早會泄露出去。聯邦調查局已經表示, 它將幫助其他執(zhí)法機構破解被鎖定的手機。

None of this should be particularly surprising. It's a way of life in the tech world. Engineers build. Hackers break in.

其實也沒什么好大驚小怪的，這就是科技界的常態(tài)：有人筑墻，就會有人攻破。

It's just that, usually, it's not the government trying to bust in or demanding someone else open it.

只是通常情況下，政府都不會參與其中，也不會要求別人來幫著做類似的事兒。

"With every technology, whether it's Microsoft, Android, Apple's iPhone — heck it could be your car, it's your friggin' toaster, your refrigerator,” Siciliano says, "with every technology, there's a way to game it. There's always a way to game it."

"每一項技術, 無論是微軟、安卓、蘋果的 iPhone, 甚至是你的汽車、你的烤面包機、你的冰箱,"西西里亞諾說,"都有自己的生存之道?？傆幸环N方法可以攻克它。"

And that, of course, may be the moral to this whole 21st-century fable: No matter how secure you think your phone is — or your computer, or your tablet, or your autonomous car — some bad guy somewhere will be looking for a way to make it unsecure.

然，這也是對于21世紀的一次道德挑戰(zhàn)：不管你認為你的手機、你的電腦、你的平板、甚至是你的自行車有多安全——總有一些壞人會想辦法讓它變得不那么安全。

"The chase is always on,” Siciliano says. “It's never NOT been on."

"科技總在進步，追逐從未停止。"西西里亞諾說。