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Apple CEO Tim Cook says FBI's 2016 case about San Bernadino shooter's locked iPhone was 'very rigged'

Apple CEO Tim Cook says FBI's 2016 case about San Bernadino shooter's locked iPhone was 'very rigged'

5 years ago
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https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/23/apples-tim-cook-says-fbi-case-against-locked-iphone-was-rigged.html

Apple CEO Tim Cook said it's unfortunate the FBI's case to force the company to provide data from a terrorist's iPhone in 2016 didn't go to trial because that way the public could have seen the truth.

Speaking on Tuesday at a Time Magazine conference in New York, Cook was referring to the case of the San Bernadino shooter, Syed Farook, who killed 14 people and injured 22 others at the Inland Regional Center. Apple publicly opposed the FBI when it asked for access to data Farook's work phone, saying that what law enforcement was requesting would be a "master key" capable of opening millions of iPhones