Never mind! Apple vs. FBI.

• Author: Shackford, Scott
• Position: IPhone security controversy - Citings - Brief article

After the deadly attacks in San Bernardino, California, authorities discovered that an iPhone used by one of the terrorists, Syed Farook, was protected by a passcode that the FBI couldn't bypass without the phone's security protections deleting the phone's contents.

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Turning to the courts, the bureau tried to force Apple to create code that would allow the government to crack the iPhone's security. Apple resisted the push, claiming that doing so would jeopardize all of its customers' information, making them vulnerable to hackers and surveillance.

Tech companies lined up solidly behind Apple. Google, Twitter, Yahoo!, Amazon, Microsoft, and many others signed on to briefs supporting the phone manufacturer's argument that it should not be forced to build security-defeating software for the...