Security News > 2020 > January > Trump Slams Apple for Refusing to Unlock Suspected Shooter’s iPhones

President Donald Trump has weighed in on Apple's decision not to help the FBI unlock iPhones of the suspect in a shooting in Florida, slamming the company in a Tweet that demands Apple "Step up to the plate and help our great Country."

"We are helping Apple all of the time on TRADE and so many other issues, and yet they refuse to unlock phones used by killers, drug dealers and other violent criminal elements," Trump wrote.

We are helping Apple all of the time on TRADE and so many other issues, and yet they refuse to unlock phones used by killers, drug dealers and other violent criminal elements.

Attorney General William Barr followed up that request with a declaration Monday that the shooting was an act of terrorism and reiterated law enforcement's plea to Apple to unlock Alshamrani's phones-an iPhone 7 and iPhone 5.

In that case-which also was categorized by the Feds as terrorism-the FBI asked Apple to unlock the phone of Syed Farook, one of two men who carried out a shooting attack on a city meeting in San Bernardino, Calif. Eventually, the DoJ took Apple to court and it was ruled the company had to unlock the iPhone; however, the FBI in the end used third-party hackers instead to crack it.

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