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Facebook, Google, Twitter, Woz, Trump, McAfee, Snowden, and more take sides on Apple vs. the FBI

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Apple is challenging a federal court order to help access an iPhone used by one of the shooters in the San Bernardino terrorist attack, claiming that doing so would create a “dangerous precedent.”</p><p>
Now, other tech companies and politicians are publicly debating whether Apple’s dead-set protection of user privacy is justified and whether the FBI has a right to enter people’s iPhones via a “backdoor” to ensure national security. Shortly after Apple CEO Tim Cook posted an open letter detailing Cupertino’s refusal (http://www.macworld.com/article/3034214/security/tim-cook-says-apple-will-oppose-court-order-rather-than-hack-customers.html#tk.rss_all), tech leaders, presidential candidates, and other public figures began taking sides.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3034979/security/facebook-google-twitter-woz-trump-mcafee-snowden-and-more-take-sides-on-apple-vs-the-fbi.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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