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April 9, 2016 12:39 am +08

The government wants to reverse an important ruling on iPhone encryption

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The government still wants into that iPhone. No, the other iPhone.

The Department of Justice has formally told the courts that it still needs Apple's help to access the iPhone in a Brooklyn drug case. Back in February — when the focus was mostly on the iPhone of the San Bernardino shooter, a case that was ultimately dropped when the FBI cracked the phone without Apple's help — a New York judge ruled against the government and sided with Apple that the law meant law enforcement couldn't compel Apple to assist.

That was an important ruling because the law — the centuries-old All Writs Act — is the same one the FBI initially tried to use in the San Bernardino case. In that case, now dropped, the FBI and DoJ wanted to use the AWA to compel Apple to create a new version of iOS that would disable key security features on the phone in question, an iPhone 5C running iOS 9. Read more...

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