Inside Apple's response to the FBI's San Bernardino demands


Wired has an excerpt from Leander Kahney's Tim Cook book focused on Apple's response to the FBI's request to gain access to the suspect in the San Bernardino shooting in December 2015. I'm not sure there's many revelations, but it is an extensive summary of events.

They knew that they had to respond immediately. The writ would dominate the next day’s news, and Apple had to have a response. "Tim knew that this was a massive decision on his part," Sewell said. It was a big moment, "a bet-the-company kind of decision." Cook and the team stayed up all nightâ€"a straight 16 hoursâ€"working on their response. Cook already knew his positionâ€"Apple would refuseâ€"but he wanted to know all the angles: What was Apple’s legal position? What was its legal obligation? Was this the right response? How should it sound? How should it read? What was the right tone?