Silicon Valley firms rally behind Apple in FBI encryption battle
by Spencer Ackerman and Sam Thielman in New York from Technology | The Guardian on (#15XS5)
Colleagues and rivals including Airbnb, eBay, Reddit and Twitter file brief saying that FBI is executing strategy against Apple 'unbound by any legal limits'
The US technology industry formally lined up beside Apple on Thursday in the company's legal fight with the FBI over encryption.
The phalanx of Silicon Valley colleagues and rivals, including Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Cisco and others filed a joint brief in California's central district court.
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