Experts contend Apple has the technical chops to comply with court order

On a technical level, Apple can comply with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) request for help in accessing an iPhone used by Syed Rizwan Farook, one of the people accused of killing 14 in California two months ago, security experts said Wednesday.

“I believe it is technically feasible for Apple to comply with all of the FBI’s requests in this case,” said Dan Guido, the co-founder and CEO of Trail of Bits, a New York City-based security firm, in a Wednesday post on his firm’s blog. “On the iPhone 5C, the passcode delay and device erasure are implemented in software and Apple can add support for peripheral devices that facilitate PIN code entry.”

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