Apple and the FBI trade blows over digital security on Capitol Hill

The battle over whether or not Apple will make new software, a so-called "GovtOS," for the FBI to help it in its investigation of last year's San Bernardino terrorist attack made its way to congress on Tuesday.

In the early going, FBI Director James Comey owned up to his agency's mistake.

In testimony on Tuesday before the House Judiciary Committee discussing the FBI's quest to force Apple to create software that will let the agency hack an iPhone 5C that was used by one of the terrorists responsible for last year's deadly attack in San Bernardino, California, Comey admitted, "There was a mistake made in that 24 hours after the attack... the county at the FBI request made it harder to back up..." Read more...