https://www.cnet.com/news/giuliani-seemingly-likens-forgetting-iphone-passcode-to-fbi-asking-apple-to-crack-open-shooters-phone/
By Corinne Reichert
CNet News
October 31, 2019
Rudy Giuiani has seemingly compared his experience of forgetting his own iPhone
password to the FBI asking Apple for access to a mass shooter's phone. Giuiani,
the newly appointed cybersecurity adviser to President Donald Trump, was
reacting to a report by NBC News earlier Thursday saying he needed an Apple
Genius to help get into his phone because he entered the passcode incorrectly
10 times. It also follows him butt dialing a NBC News journalist and
accidentally leaving a voicemail of a private conversation last week.
"Hey @NBCNews, last I checked the FBI, last year, had to ask Apple to unlock an
iPhone too!" he tweeted Thursday evening. "We're all human, just maybe not
tonight..." he added, referencing Halloween with a pumpkin emoji.
He's likely referring to the 2015 San Bernardino, California, mass shooting
that left 14 people dead, after which an iPhone belonging to the suspect was at
the center of a legal battle between the government and Apple. The US
government had wanted Apple to produce software that could unlock the phone,
but Apple refused.
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