Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Apple To Fight Order To Break Encryption On San Bernardino Shooter's iPhone

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Apple CEO Tim Cook says building "a backdoor to the iPhone" would leave millions of customers open to attacks by hackers and criminals.

Judge Sheri Pym of U.S. District Court in Los Angeles said on Tuesday that Apple must provide "reasonable technical assistance" to investigators seeking to unlock data on an iPhone 5C that had been owned by Syed Rizwan Farook.

In a letter to Apple's customers, Cook said the FBI had asked the company to build "a backdoor to the iPhone."

"The government is asking Apple to hack our own users and undermine decades of security advancements that protect our customers - including tens of millions of American citizens - from sophisticated hackers and cybercriminals," he said.

"We can find no precedent for an American company being forced to expose its customers to a greater risk of attack."

Judge Sheri Pym ordered Apple to help investigators unlock data on an iPhone 5C once owned by San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook, right.

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