Round One Goes to the FBI, But the Crypto War Isn’t Over

The Justice Department may have abandoned its fight with Apple over accessing the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters. The war over government access to encrypted technologies, however, is far from over.
In the wake of the deadly attacks in Brussels and Paris, U.S. and European intelligence agencies are under intense pressure to intercept communications between terrorists who use secure modes of communication to plan and carry out their strikes. Key U.S. senators say they will try to force tech companies to help the government access scrambled data. Apple, meanwhile, has pledged to fight to find out how the government broke into its phone and remains embroiled in a series of legal disputes with law enforcement agencies over access to other encrypted iPhone data.