Apple has formally appealed the court ruling that the FBI obtained in February that would force Apple to comply with the governments investigations, by decrypting the iPhone at the heart of a terrorism investigation via a signed OS update. In a parallel case Apple appears to have the support of a federal judge, who has ruled that the law the FBI is citing is not applicable. Whether the written ruling helps Apple win its appeal remains to be seen, but Apple has appealed to a higher court and asked the original judge to vacate her ruling. Syed Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik killed 14 people and wounded 22 in a mass shooting on December 2nd 2015. There has been…