• Arstechnica, Tuesday, March 1, 2016 4:10 PM

A federal judge in New York rejected the FBI's request to require Apple to unlock an iPhone used by a drug dealer. "Nothing in the government's arguments suggests any principled limit on how far a court may go in requiring a person or company to violate the most deeply-rooted values to provide assistance to the government the court deems necessary," U.S. Magistrate Judge James Orenstein wrote. The phone's owner pleaded guilty in October, but prosecutors say they still need data because the investigation isn't over.

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