Journalist Gets Hacked While Writing Apple-FBI Story
"That's why this story is so important to everyone," says hacker, who was a fellow passenger on his flight.
On a recent American Airlines flight from Dallas to Raleigh, journalist Steven Petrow decided to get some work done on a story he was writing about the potential impact on ordinary Americans of the battle between Apple and the FBI over creating a tool that will allow the FBI to access virtually any iPhone. The feud has divided the public, lawmakers, and tech CEOs over a person's right to privacy versus the need for national security. The FBI says it needs a backdoor into the iPhone so it can extract data from terrorists' iPhones, while Apple says creating a backdoor would leave everyone open to increased attacks from hackers.