Apple CEO Tim Cook claims FBI wants him to develop the ‘software equivalent of CANCER’ to unlock San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone
Tim Cook facing mounting pressure to help unlock Syed Farook’s cell
In his first interview about the case, he says it would be ‘bad for America’
Unlocking the iPhone would set a legal precedent that would offend most Americans, he says in the ABC interview screened on Wednesday night
Despite a court order to unlock it, he says it’s a matter for Congress to call
His words are a stubborn dismissal of pleas from the FBI, Loretta Lynch, victims’ relatives, and some of his Silicon Valley peers
Attorney General Loretta Lynch says no need for Congress to get involved
By MIA DE GRAAF
DAILYMAIL.COM
25 February 2016
Apple chief Tim Cook says the FBI is asking him to develop ‘the software equivalent of cancer’ in order to hack an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters.
‘The only way to get information (…) would be to write a piece of software that we view as sort of the equivalent of cancer,’ Cook told ABC News on Tuesday in his first interview since the court order came down last week.
‘We think it’s bad news to write. We would never write it. We have never written it – and that is what is at stake here. We believe that is a very dangerous operating system.’
The iPhone in question was used by San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook, who along with his wife went on a shooting rampage in December that killed 14 and wounded 22.
Cook said that complying with a court order to help the FBI break into Farook’s iPhone 5C would be ‘bad for America’, and would set a legal precedent that would offend many Americans.
His words are a stubborn dismissal of pleas from the government, the FBI, victims’ relatives, and some of his Silicon Valley peers who have all suggested Apple is missing the point.
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