On Friday, a judge ordered Apple to assist the FBI in unlocking an iPhone in a Boston gang case, despite the tech company's objections about privacy and national security. The ruling comes as the Justice Department filed an appeal Friday requesting the company's help in another criminal case, this one involving the locked iPhone of a convicted drug dealer in a New York investigation. Though the Justice Department was able to move forward without Apple's help in breaking into the San Bernardino attacker's iPhone — another high-profile battle between the FBI and Apple — the FBI's director says the government's technique does not work on all iPhone models.
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