Tim Cook appears on ABC's World News – Pleads Case for Apple going against FBI

On Wednesday evening, Apple CEO Tim Cook went on ABC’s World News Tonight show to lay out why Apple won’t help the FBI in the case of the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone.

In questioning Cook, Muir first addressed public opinion, which relates the ongoing encryption debate directly — and solely — with 14 people who lost their lives in last year’s San Bernardino terrorist attack. Cook, however, remained resolute in his stance that creating a software workaround endangers hundreds of millions of Apple customers.

“It’s not like we have information on this phone in the next office over. We have no other information on this phone. None,” Cook said. “The only way we know to get additional information is to write a piece of software that is the software equivalent of cancer. That is what is at stake here.”

Put more succinctly, Cook said “the future is at stake” in Apple’s legal battle for user privacy.

For those of you who have not seen the interview, we are including it below.  Please feel free to comment about this in our comment area.

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