17-02-2016 04:29 via uk.news.yahoo.com

Apple ordered to aid FBI in unlocking California shooter's phone

By Dustin Volz and Joseph Menn WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Tuesday ordered Apple Inc to help the FBI break into a phone recovered from one of the San Bernardino shooters, an order that heightens a long-running dispute between tech companies and law enforcement over the limits of encryption. Apple must provide "reasonable technical assistance" to investigators seeking to unlock the data on an iPhone 5C that had been owned by Syed Rizwan Farook, Judge Sheri Pym of U.S. District Court in
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