APPLE TELLS EMPLOYEES WHY IT WON’T HELP HACK SHOOTER’S PHONE

Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook acknowledged to employees this week that “it does not feel right” to refuse to help the FBI hack a locked iPhone used by a gunman in the San Bernardino mass shootings. But he said that to do so would threaten data security for millions and “everyone’s civil liberties.” “We have no tolerance or sympathy for terrorists,” Cook wrote in an early morning email addressed to the Apple “Team.”‘’When they commit unspeakable acts like the tragic attacks in San Bernardino, we work to help the authorities pursue justice for the victims.” But he reiterated the company’s position that to hack the San Bernardino gunman’s phone would ultimately risk “security of hundreds of millions of law-abiding people.” Cook’s email came just hours after FBI director James Comey said in…

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