The abrupt end to the FBI’s legal battle with Apple this week resolved none of the underlying disputes. Now important lessons from that case are in danger of being obscured and discourse on encryption and security derailed by emotionalism in the wake of the Brussels attacks.
After asserting repeatedly that only Apple was capable of breaking into the San Bernardino terrorist’s work iPhone, the FBI issued a “nevermind” straight out of “SNL.” For all its bluster, could it be that the agency was (gasp) lying all along?
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