iPhone hack ‘Software equivalent of cancer’

Apple chief Tim Cook has said to comply with a court order to help the FBI break into an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters would amount to the “software equivalent of cancer”.

He said such a move would be “bad for America,” and set a legal precedent that would offend many Americans.

“Some things are hard, and some things are right, and some things are both — this is one of those things,” Mr Cook told ABC News in his first interview since the court order came down last week.