蘋(píng)果公司在美國(guó)國(guó)會(huì)聽(tīng)證會(huì)上透露了這一消息。

目前，蘋(píng)果與FBI之間關(guān)于是否解鎖兇犯iphone手機(jī)的爭(zhēng)端如火如荼。在一場(chǎng)原本為此舉行的國(guó)會(huì)聽(tīng)證上，蘋(píng)果披露了一樁不為人知的軼聞，而且與至今下落不明的馬來(lái)西亞航空MH370航班有關(guān)。

當(dāng)時(shí)，蘋(píng)果首席法律顧問(wèn)布魯斯?休厄爾被問(wèn)到一個(gè)假設(shè)性問(wèn)題：“如果緊急情況下要用到iPhone里的數(shù)據(jù)，蘋(píng)果會(huì)怎么處理？”

這個(gè)問(wèn)題是由美國(guó)眾議院議員塞德里克?里士滿(mǎn)提出的。科技媒體The Verge最先報(bào)道了此事。該問(wèn)題是，假如有恐怖分子將核彈信息存放在一部iPhone內(nèi)，而后突然被殺，蘋(píng)果要花多長(zhǎng)時(shí)間才能開(kāi)發(fā)出能找出核彈信息的技術(shù)？

休厄爾的回答是，過(guò)去出現(xiàn)緊急情況時(shí)，蘋(píng)果參與過(guò)類(lèi)似合作，包括兩年前搜尋失聯(lián)的馬航飛機(jī)時(shí)。

“在宣告客機(jī)失聯(lián)后一小時(shí)內(nèi)，蘋(píng)果公司的操作員就和全球各地的電話(huà)服務(wù)商合作，配合航空公司與FBI尋找測(cè)試數(shù)據(jù)包的ping命令，找出可能定位飛機(jī)位置的方法。”休厄爾在聽(tīng)證會(huì)上這么回答。

他說(shuō)，遇到緊急情況，蘋(píng)果的第一反應(yīng)會(huì)是啟動(dòng)所有應(yīng)急程序，立刻尋找可能解決問(wèn)題的一切信息。

在聽(tīng)證會(huì)的回答里，休厄爾可能也暗示了，蘋(píng)果只會(huì)協(xié)助現(xiàn)有機(jī)構(gòu)，采用已有技術(shù)合作，不會(huì)按照FBI的要求開(kāi)發(fā)新的軟件。

如休厄爾所說(shuō)，為了尋找MH370在南印度洋的大致方位，蘋(píng)果大量運(yùn)用的辦法是分析人造衛(wèi)星捕捉的ping命令。然而，上周末在莫桑比克海岸發(fā)現(xiàn)了一塊疑似MH370的殘骸，發(fā)現(xiàn)的位置和搜救區(qū)有些距離。（財(cái)富中文網(wǎng)）

譯者：Pessy

校對(duì)：夏林

The company said during a congressional hearing

In a congressional hearing for Apple and the FBI’s fight over accessing a locked iPhone, an interesting tidbit about the still-missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 came up.

Apple’s AAPL 0.22% general counsel Bruce Sewell was asked about a hypothetical: how would the company handle emergencies that involve accessing data in the phone?

The hypothetical situation put forth by Rep. Cedric Richmond, and first noted by The Verge, was if a terrorist placed information about a nuclear bomb into an iPhone and was suddenly killed. How long would it take Apple to build a piece of technology to find out more about the bomb?

Sewell answered—and you can watch his reply at the5 hour, 1 minute and 40 second-mark here—that Apple has cooperated in previous urgent situations, including in the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight two years ago.

“Within one hour of that plane being declared missing, we had Apple operators cooperating with telephone providers all over the world, with the airlines [and] with the FBI to try to find a ping, to try to find some way that we could locate where that plane was,” Sewell said at the hearing.

He said the first response would be to bring together all the emergency procedures at Apple’s disposal to try and find any information that could address immediate situations.

Sewell might have been implicitly suggesting that the company would work with existing agencies and technology as its way of helping, rather than actually creating new software, which the FBI iscurrently asking the company to do.

It was also the analysis of satellite pings to locate the missing MH370 plane was heavily used in determining the general location of the plane in the southern Indian Ocean. However, a piece of wreckage was found over the weekend on the coast of Mozambique, which is some ways away from the search area.