Cybersecurity
How Apple Will Fight U.S. Demand for Access to Attacker's iPhone
- U.S. is leaning on law from 1789 Tim Cook thinks he can beat
- `It’s not as if Apple has this key lying around,' lawyer says
Apple Opposes DOJ, FBI Over Shooter's iPhone Data
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Apple Inc. has a message for the government: You can’t make us give you what we don’t have.
Confronting U.S. investigators who want it to help them gain access to a terrorist’s iPhone, Apple is arguing that it can’t be compelled to create a key to the encryption of its devices. The U.S., invoking a catch-all law used 200 years ago to make people provide supplies in the war against the British, says it just wants quick access to a single locked device used by Syed Rizwan Farook in last year’s massacre in San Bernardino, California.