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If at first you don't succeed, pry, pry again: Feds once again demand Apple unlock encrypted iPhones in yet another terrorism case

Michael Wojcik Silver badge

And even a POTUS who was strongly pro-encryption (already highly unlikely) would face tremendous resistance within the executive branch and from Congress.

Most of the current judicial branch doesn't seem particularly likely to support encryption for citizens either; certainly the FISC Star Chamber is more than happy to roll over when any intelligence agency says "boo", and I don't expect the last couple of SCOTUS appointees to do anything much to reign in the police state.

Barr (and by extension his nominal boss) is part of the problem here, but removing him and other senior players in the administration wouldn't change much.

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