What The Founders Would Say About IPhone Unlock Case

Law360, New York (March 23, 2016, 12:06 PM EDT) -- In a criminal investigation, if important information were behind a locked vault and the vault manufacturer had a master key to access the vault, the government would be on solid grounds to request this master key. But what if no master key existed? What if the vault was built and sold to preclude the existence of a master key? Can the government conscript the manufacturer to develop a master key where none exists, to invent something novel, thereby compromising the security of all owners of the vault? This is essentially the question a magistrate judge in California is grappling with in the wake of the San Bernardino mass shooting....

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