[Cryptography] Hope Apple Fights This!

[Aram Perez]

"A federal judge has ordered Apple to help the government unlock the iPhone used by one of the shooters who carried out the Dec. 2 San Bernardino, Calif., terrorist attacks after the government said that the firm failed to provide assistance voluntarily. … The order, signed Tuesday by a magistrate judge in Riverside, Calif., does not ask Apple to break the phone’s encryption but rather to disable the feature that wipes the data on the phone after 10 incorrect tries at entering a password." The full story at https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-wants-apple-to-help-unlock-iphone-used-by-san-bernardino-shooter/2016/02/16/69b903ee-d4d9-11e5-9823-02b905009f99_story.html.

This will set a dangerous precedent along a very slippery rode.