If Apple Is Forced to Unlock the iPhone, It Will Weaken Our Ability to Fight Cybercrime
In the 1990s, the government proposed a law that would have required encryption software to have a "Clipper Chip," a backdoor by which the government could decrypt software. Congress did not approve, and President Bill Clinton withdrew the proposal. That established limits: encrypted software could exist that the government, even with a court order, could not decrypt. Such software is now legally sold in America and elsewhere around the world. Comey wants to make it illegal.
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