Thanks to a motion to unseal filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), it has been revealed that the FBI is again trying to use the All Writs Act, a law from 1879 that can in some circumstances be used to ask companies render technical assistance to law enforcement, to force Apple to decrypt an iPhone (believed to be an iPhone 6 Plus running iOS 9.1) in a gang-related case. Since the case that the FBI later dropped in San Bernardino became public, it has been revealed that the FBI, contrary to its claims, has attempted to use the AWA some 63 times to try and force companies to decryp
