The Apple standoff should make us rethink our surrender to the phone | Gaby Hinsliff

The FBI's fight to unlock an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters is a reminder of the risks of putting all our electronic eggs in one basket

It certainly wasn't how you imagine a bank robbery to be. There were no men with sawn-off shotguns or screaming cashiers lunging for panic buttons. It all happened so peacefully and invisibly that I would never have noticed had I not been logging into my bank account online last month, only to find that nothing worked. Shortly afterwards, HSBC confirmed it had been forced to defend its systems from a criminal attack.

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