蘋果公司在美國國會聽證會上透露了這一消息。

目前，蘋果與FBI之間關于是否解鎖兇犯iphone手機的爭端如火如荼。在一場原本為此舉行的國會聽證上，蘋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西亞航空MH370航班有關。

當時，蘋果首席法律顧問布魯斯?休厄爾被問到一個假設性問題：“如果緊急情況下要用到iPhone里的數據，蘋果會怎么處理？”

這個問題是由美國眾議院議員塞德里克?里士滿提出的。科技媒體The Verge最先報道了此事。該問題是，假如有恐怖分子將核彈信息存放在一部iPhone內，而后突然被殺，蘋果要花多長時間才能開發出能找出核彈信息的技術？

休厄爾的回答是，過去出現緊急情況時，蘋果參與過類似合作，包括兩年前搜尋失聯的馬航飛機時。

“在宣告客機失聯后一小時內，蘋果公司的操作員就和全球各地的電話服務商合作，配合航空公司與FBI尋找測試數據包的ping命令，找出可能定位飛機位置的方法。”休厄爾在聽證會上這么回答。

他說，遇到緊急情況，蘋果的第一反應會是啟動所有應急程序，立刻尋找可能解決問題的一切信息。

在聽證會的回答里，休厄爾可能也暗示了，蘋果只會協助現有機構，采用已有技術合作，不會按照FBI的要求開發新的軟件。

如休厄爾所說，為了尋找MH370在南印度洋的大致方位，蘋果大量運用的辦法是分析人造衛星捕捉的ping命令。然而，上周末在莫桑比克海岸發現了一塊疑似MH370的殘骸，發現的位置和搜救區有些距離。（財富中文網）

譯者：Pessy

校對：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.