It’s widely agreed that the government should be able force a company to turn over information it possesses when there is reason to believe that information could be used to prevent a terrorist attack. However, that’s not what the current dispute between Apple and the Department of Justice is about. The government is asking Apple to undermine privacy protection that the firm has spent years developing and refining by creating software to defeat that protection. And it is just to discover whether any useful information was added to a terrorist’s iPhone between October 19, 2015 and December 2, 2015.

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