The FBI-Apple Battle Is Far from Over

The Justice Department has dropped its legal effort to force Apple to unlock the iPhone used by one of the shooters in the San Bernardino terrorist attack after the government found another way to crack the phone — without the tech giant’s help.

With no legal precedent set in the case, the question of whether law enforcement can indeed compel tech companies to assist in unlocking such devices — and therefore potentially undermine their own security — remains up in the air. And although this particular battle has ended, the encryption debate and the overarching question of privacy vs. security is also far from resolved, experts and Cipher Brief network contributors say.

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