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February 23, 2016 04:41 pm GMT

The FBI says the tool it wants Apple to build could remain secret. Would it?

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In the ongoing war of words between Apple and the FBI, there 's a lot to unpack.

In what is quickly becoming a public-relations war between the Department of Justice and Apple, one of the core issues that keeps coming up again and again is, "What would happen to the software the FBI is asking Apple to build?"

See also: Apple's clash with the FBI will be a tough legal fight

That software, of course, is the still-theoretical version of iOS that would cripple a key part of the security on the iPhone 5C of Syed Farook, one of the terrorists involved in the December attack in San Bernardino. The FBI wants Apple to create the software so it can then guess the passcode with a "brute force" hack — essentially guessing one passcode after another in rapid succession. Read more...

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