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Yoni Heisler
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In 2016, the FBI and Apple engaged in a widely reported public relations battle over iPhone encryption. As a quick refresher, the FBI was unable to unlock an iPhone 5c belonging to Syed Farook, one of the perpetrators involved in a 2015 terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California. In turn, the FBI wanted Apple to create a custom version of iOS that would allow them to bypass the device’s lockscreen. Apple strenuously objected, with Tim Cook even going so far as to say that the FBI wanted Apple to create the software equivalent of cancer. Now, many months later, a similar sequence of events has developed. According to a report from Wired, the FBI is currently having trouble accessing a locked iPhone that belonged to Dahir Adan, the terrorist who went on a stabbing rampage at a mall in Minnesota where he attacked 10 people before an off-duty cop managed to kill him. (more…)
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