Federal judge rules US government can't force Apple to make a security-breaking tool
by Cory Doctorow from on (#15N6Q)
We've all heard that there's a federal judge in California who ordered Apple to make a tool to help the FBI decrypt a phone belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters -- but despite the FBI's insistence that this is a special circumstance, San Bernardino is just one of a dozen-odd cases where the FBI is making similar demands on Apple. (more")