How Apple Will Fight U.S. Demand for Access to Attacker’s iPhone

By Christie Smythe, Edvard Pettersson, Tiffany Kary, Bloomberg News

Apple Inc. has a message for the government: You can’t make us give you what we don’t have.

Confronting U.S. investigators who want it to help them gain access to a terrorist’s iPhone, Apple is arguing that it can’t be compelled to create a key to the encryption of its devices. The U.S., invoking a catch-all law used 200 years ago to make people provide supplies in the war against the British, says it just wants quick access to a single locked device used by Syed Rizwan Farook in last year’s ...