Apple challenges 'chilling' demand to decrypt San Bernardino shooter's iPhone

[Apple challenges 'chilling' demand to decrypt San Bernardino shooter's iPhone: Tim Cook publicly attacks the US government for asking Apple to take an ‘unprecedented step which threatens the security of our customers’ by Stuart Dredge and Danny Yadron] "Apple has hit back after a US federal magistrate ordered the company to help the FBI unlock the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters, with chief executive Tim Cook describing the demand as “chilling”.

The court order focuses on Apple’s security feature that slows down anyone trying to use “brute force” to gain access to an iPhone by guessing its passcode. In a letter published on the company’s website, Cook responded saying Apple would oppose the order and calling for public debate.

“The United States government has demanded that Apple take an unprecedented step which threatens the security of our customers. We oppose this order, which has implications far beyond the legal case at hand,” he wrote.

While Cook took pains to stress that Apple was “shocked and outraged” by the San Bernardino shooting last December – “we have no sympathy for terrorists” – he said company is determined to push back against the court order.

Cook wrote that opposing the order “is not something we take lightly”.

“We feel we must speak up in the face of what we see as an overreach by the US government,” he added..." Full text: Apple challenges 'chilling' demand to decrypt San Bernardino shooter's iPhone Jn 8:36, Re 13:17

Response to comment [from a Christian]: "They will give it up and obey the FBI."

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Apple challenges 'chilling' demand to decrypt San Bernardino shooter's iPhone