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The US vs Apple and Microsoft: makings of a perfect storm

Business, Tilleke & Gibbins International Ltd, Published on 01/04/2016

» In February, a US court in California issued an order to Apple that was equivalent to a magnitude 9 earthquake striking Silicon Valley. It told Apple to write code to bypass a security feature to allow a brute-force password attack by the FBI to unlock an iPhone used by one of the terrorists killed by police after the San Bernardino attack in December 2015.