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Apple engineers would rather quit than help the FBI

Business Insider
Kip Leswing March 18, 2016
Some Apple engineers say that they'd rather quit than help the government break security measures that Apple has placed on iPhones and iPads.

 Apple previously said that GovtOS would require between six and 10 engineers working for up to a month.


In the FBI’s Crypto War, Apps May Be the Next Target 
 WIRED

• Andy Greenberg Security  Date of Publication: 03.14.16. 03.14.16 
•   If there’s anything the world has learned from the standoff over the encrypted iPhone of San Bernardino killer Syed Rizwan Farook, it’s that the FBI doesn’t take no for an answer. And now it’s becoming clear that the government’s determination to access encrypted data doesn’t end with a single iPhone, or with Apple, or even with data stored on devices. It may extend as far as any app that encrypts secrets in transit or in the cloud.