The district attorney of San Bernardino County, Michael Ramos, has raised concerns about the possibility of a ‘dormant cyber pathogen’ in the iPhone 5c used by a terrorist in attacks in the county on Dec. 2. Apple has refused to help the FBI unlock by brute force the iPhone used by terrorist Syed Rizwan Farook. An expert in iOS related digital forensics and security said he had found no evidence after a Google search of any such pathogen. The statements are not only misleading, but amount to “blatant fear mongering,” he wrote.”]

