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Monday, February 22, 2016

Tim Cook says FBI’s unlock request ‘threatens everyone’s civil liberties’

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Tim Cook sent an open letter to Apple employees today calling the government’s request for the unlocking of the San Bernadino’s shooter suspect’s iPhone a threat to the civil liberties of millions of US citizens. The letter runs the now well-publicised and likely long-running back and forth between Apple and the FBI over whether the request for unlocking (or the tools to unlock the device itself) consituted a single use-case or a slippery slope to a wider backdoor being used to access devices in future. “As individuals and as a company, we have no tolerance or sympathy for terrorists. When they…

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