US sought help from San Bernardino victims' lawyer before Apple clash
by Spencer Ackerman in New York from Technology | The Guardian on (#14SPN)
Lawyer says US attorney's office asked him on 14 February to file brief asking company to help unlock shooter's iPhone amid feud over encryption
Federal prosecutors asked an attorney for victims of the San Bernardino terrorist attack to aid their case two days before they asked a judge to order Apple to unlock an iPhone used by one of the shooters, spurring a massive privacy battle, the Guardian has learned.
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