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Cook
said that the demand threatened the security of Apple's
customers and had "implications far beyond the legal case at
hand." (http://apple.co/1Lt7ReW)
Judge Sheri Pym of U.S. District Court in Los Angeles said on
Tuesday that Apple must provide "reasonable technical
assistance" to investigators seeking to unlock data on an iPhone
5C that had been owned by Syed Rizwan Farook.
In a letter to Apple's customers, Cook said the FBI had asked
the company to build "a backdoor to the iPhone."
"The government is asking Apple to hack our own users and
undermine decades of security advancements that protect our
customers — including tens of millions of American citizens —
from sophisticated hackers and cybercriminals," he said.
"We can find no precedent for an American company being forced
to expose its customers to a greater risk of attack."
(Corrects dateline to Feb 17 from Feb 16)
(Reporting by Shivam Srivastava in Bengaluru; Editing by Robin
Paxton)
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