Father asks Apple head Tim Cook to unblock dead son's iPhone
by Agence France-Presse in Rome from Technology | The Guardian on (#18WMK)
Leonardo Fabbretti says firm thought to have helped FBI access San Bernardino gunman's phone will help if Apple refuses
A grieving father in Italy has written to Apple's chief executive, Tim Cook, to beg him to unblock his dead son's iPhone so he can retrieve the photographs stored on it.
If the US tech giant fails, he said he would turn to the Israeli mobile forensics firm that reportedly helped the FBI crack the iPhone used by gunman Syed Farook in the San Bernardino attack in December.
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