Grieving father begs Apple, enlists hackers over son’s iPhone


ROME: A grieving father in Italy has written to Apple’s chief executive Tim Cook to beg him to unblock his dead son’s iPhone so he can retrieve the photographs stored on it. 

If the US tech giant fails, he said he will turn to the elite of the hacking world – Apple’s nemesis in the San Bernardino case, which saw the FBI turn to outside help after it failed to force the Silicon valley company to crack a killer’s iPhone. 

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