Apple CEO Tim Cook calls iPhone decryption code software 'equivalent of cancer'
Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 08:30
in Mathematics & Economics
Apple CEO Tim Cook says that complying with the FBI's demand to unlock an iPhone would be forcing the company "to write a piece of software that we view as sort of the equivalent of cancer."
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