Opinion | Dan Gillmor: AG Barr wants Apple to break their encryption, even if it risks every American being hacked. - NBCNewsTHINK
What the government wants, in simple terms, is for technology companies to make sure their encryption methods are fundamentally flawed, in ways that they know and can share with law enforcement. Law enforcement’s goal is to have corporate and/or government access into anyone's cellphone or communications stream — such as iMessage or WhatsApp — without the permission of a phone's owner.
The Trump administration isn’t the first to try to create a special way to monitor cellphones. The modern encryption wars began back in the 1990s, when the Clinton administration proposed – and then, confronted with reality, dropped – putting a special chip in mobile phones that would, on demand, give the government access to any communications conducted on it.
Until the Pensacola case, the most furious debate over whether technology companies should grant governments access to everyone's cellphones took place after the 2015 attack in San Bernardino, California, in which 14 people were shot by two terrorists who were later killed by police. The Obama administration wanted Apple to break its technology to allow investigators further insights into the attack. and Apple refused, even defying a court order while it challenged the order.
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