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| Apple asks court to reverse iPhone order | Apple asks court to reverse iPhone order |
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| Apple has asked a US court to overturn an earlier ruling ordering the company to help the FBI break into a phone used by one of the San Bernardino killers. | Apple has asked a US court to overturn an earlier ruling ordering the company to help the FBI break into a phone used by one of the San Bernardino killers. |
| In court papers Apple says law enforcement authorities are seeking "dangerous powers" and the move violates its constitutional rights. | |
| The FBI and White House have said the request is limited to one iPhone. | The FBI and White House have said the request is limited to one iPhone. |
| But Apple says the software needed to comply with the FBI's request "simply does not exist". | But Apple says the software needed to comply with the FBI's request "simply does not exist". |
| Instead says it would have to create a new version on the iPhone operating software, containing a back door to the device's encrypted data. | |
| It argues that the lower court did not have the authority to force Apple to do that. | |
| Apple also says no court had ever forced a company to weaken the security of its products to gain access to personal individual information. | |
| "This case is about the Department of Justice and the FBI seeking through the courts a dangerous power that Congress and the American people have withheld," the filing said. | |
| Apple's attorney, Bruce Sewell will testify before Congress on 1 March about the encryption case. | |
| 'Hardest question' | |
| On Thursday FBI director James Comey, said the government's dispute with Apple was, "the hardest" he had faced in government. | |
| Testifying before congress Mr Comey said: "This is the hardest question I have seen in government and it's going to require negotiation and conversation." | |
| The row between Apple and the FBI blew up last week when the bureau asked the electronics firm for help to unlock the smartphone of Syed Rizwan Farook - who along with his wife killed 14 people in December 2015. | |
| So far, Apple has refused to unlock the phone. | |
| In an interview aired yesterday with US TV network ABC, Apple boss Tim Cook said the FBI was asking it to make "the software equivalent of cancer". | |
| He added: "Some things are hard and some things are right. And some things are both. This is one of those things." | |
| Industry support | |
| Tech leaders, including Google's boss, and Apple customers have praised the company for standing up to the FBI. | |
| Apple supporters rallied in front of the company's stores on Tuesday to show their support. | |
| A Department of Justice court filing from February accused Apple of refusing to help to boost its "marketing strategy". |