Giuliani seemingly likens forgetting iPhone passcode to FBI asking Apple to crack open shooter's phone

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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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