Representing Apple in its ongoing battle with the FBI, former George W. Bush administration Solicitor General Ted Olson warned that if the tech company was forced to write a new operating system to ease law enforcement’s efforts to break into an iPhone, it “would lead to a police state.”
Too late, some of us would respond. The components of a police state have arguably been in place at least since the aftermath of 9/11. Cheerleaders in both major political parties thinks that’s just a swell development—and would like to see more of the same.
And truthfully, Apple’s battle isn’t against a one-off court order to crack an encrypted phone. As J.D. Tuccille explains, it’s the latest skirmish in the government’s ongoing war against privacy protections—as well as an act of resistance against federal efforts to conscript the private sector into its crusade.
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