Apple Appealing Court Order To Break Into iPhone Of San Bernardino Shooter
(CBS) -- Apple says it won't break into the iPhone of a killer even though a judge is ordering the tech giant to do so. The company says that move would be so dangerous it would put millions of devices at risk.
CBS 2's Mike Parker takes a closer look at the legal case, over a terrorist's iPhone.
It has become known as the San Bernardino terrorist attack: 14 innocent victims gunned down at a December holiday party.
But did Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik have accomplices? The FBI thinks answers may be found in Farook's encrypted iPhone.
"We still have one of the killer's phones that we have not been able to open," said FBI Director James Comey.
Now a federal judge has ordered the apple company to write a special code to disable the security system in the phone, to allow the FBI to break the encryption system.
But Apple CEO Tim Cook says the company will appeal the ruling. He talked about the dangers recently with Charlie Rose on 60 Minutes.
"There have been people that suggested that we have a back door but the reality is , if you puta back door in, that back door is for everybody, for good guys and bad guys," Cook said.
William Kresse of Governor's State is a cybercrime expert.
"Once that key is created, if it were to get out past the government, any amount of information stored on phones would then be accessible by whoever has that key," Kresse said.
At Chicago's Near North Side Apple Store, many customers worried about danger to their privacy. However, Jean Pierre says,"I also want to protect my family and my friends and my neighbors from a terrorist attack if i know it's going to happen."
CEO Tim Cook calls the order an "overreach" by the government. The feds, he says, are asking apple for something he says is "too dangerous to create."
