The Lowdown on the Apple-FBI Showdown
Summary: A California federal magistrate ordered Apple to help the FBI access an iPhone 5c belonging to Syed Rizwan Farook, one of the two people responsible for the Dec. 2, 2015 San Bernardino shooting that killed 14 people. Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company will appeal, stating the government asked it to build a backdoor to the iPhone, while FBI Director James Comey said the agency only wants to try guessing the passcode without the phone self-destructing.
What's compelling: Apple has unlocked phones in roughly 70 other government cases, so this order turns on precedent: Cook argues the technique, once created, could be used over and over on any number of devices, and Nicholas Weaver warns the NSA would almost immediately seek the same authority through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
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