The Apple and FBI fight over the San Bernardino shooter’s phone is on hold – for now. But even if the FBI is successfully able to hack the phone, the fight over encryption is far from finished.
As Mark Hindelang, assistant prosecuting attorney in the Wayne County (Michigan) Prosecutor’s Office, explained at ABA Tech Show 2016 last week about the fight, “It seems like the issue came out of nowhere, but it didn’t really come out of nowhere.” In fact, tech companies have been wondering about this specific issue for over a year, and organizations such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation have been harping on the issue for even longer.
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