Apple asks to block court order to help decrypt iPhone


  • TECH
  • Friday, 26 Feb 2016

epa05177766 People rally in front of an Apple Store in San Francisco, California, USA, 23 February 2016. The protest is to show support for Apple Inc., on its refusal to to help the FBI to gain encryption 'backdoor' access to information on the iPhone that belong to one of the two people who killed 14 people in the San Bernadino terror atack. EPA/JOHN G. MABANGLO

WASHINGTON: Apple urged a federal court to toss out an order that the company help the FBI hack into an iPhone used by a shooter in the San Bernardino attack, arguing that it was a “dangerous power.” 

The legal response was fired in what promised to be a landmark case pitting national security against personal privacy. 

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