“Take a deep breath and stop saying the world is ending,” FBI Director James Comey wrote on Lawfare as he tried to explain the FBI’s reasoning for trying to force Apple to unlock San Bernadino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook’s locked iPhone 5c.

“The San Bernardino litigation isn’t about trying to set a precedent or send any kind of message,” according to Comey. “We simply want the chance, with a search warrant, to try to guess the terrorist’s passcode without the phone essentially self-destructing and without it taking a decade to guess correctly. That’s it. We don’t want to break anyone’s encryption or set a master key loose on the land.”

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