After an initial period of silence, several major technology companies have begun to signal their support of Apple Inc. in its pushback against a government order demanding the Cupertino, California-based company break into the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters.
A California judge demanded on Tuesday that Apple assist the Federal Bureau of Investigation in accessing the data on Syed Rizwan Farook’s iPhone by writing software that could be used to override the device’s password protections. Apple rejected the order in a public letter from CEO Tim Cook, who insisted that creating this software, which doesn’t currently exist at Apple, would be a back door into people’s iPhones that could be used far beyond this single instance.
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