The San Bernardino iPhone case over encryption may be over for now after the FBI managed to break into the iPhone 5c used by one of the shooters, but the same isn’t true for another high-profile case in New York involving an encrypted iPhone that cannot be unlocked. Bloomberg reports that the United States Department of Statement has decided to indeed continue its demand that Apple help unlock the encrypted iPhone of an alleged drug dealer.
The U.S. government is pressing a demand that Apple Inc. help it crack a drug dealer’s phone in Brooklyn, New York, even after it said it successfully accessed a California shooter’s iPhone without the company’s help.
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