“Apple Inc. is getting more time to argue against a court order that would force it to break into the iPhone of a shooter in a terrorist attack in California, a standoff that pits the company’s push to protect customers’ privacy against the U.S. government’s efforts to fight crime,” Edvard Pettersson, Dina Bass, and Adam Satariano report for Bloomberg.
“The company’s response in court will be due Feb. 26 instead of Tuesday, said two people familiar with the timeline, who asked not to be identified because the matter wasn’t public,” Pettersson, Bass, and Satariano report. “The federal magistrate who on Feb. 16 granted the Justice Department’s request for an order forcing Apple to help the FBI had given the company five business days to oppose her order.”
“The Justice Department wants Apple to provide customized software that will prevent the data on the phone from being deleted after 10 attempts to input the passcode. The software also must enable agents to send electronic passcodes to the phone, rather than manually typing them in, according to the application. The software would allow agents to automatically enter multiple passcodes to get around the encryption standards,” Pettersson, Bass, and Satariano report. “[Apple CEO Tim] Cook likened the federal order to creating a “master key” that could be used to unlock any number of other iPhones in use around the globe.”
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