A New York prosecutor tomorrow plans to urge Congress to write legislation that would require Apple to roll back iPhone security to the model of 2013’s iOS 7, according to prepared testimony published today.

Cyrus Vance Jr., the District Attorney for New York County, will testify before the House Judiciary Committee tomorrow as one of three witnesses at a hearing to discuss encryption. The others include Bruce Sewell, Apple’s general counsel, and Susan Landau, a professor of cybersecurity policy at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Mass.

The hearing will be closely watched, as both Apple and the federal government — the latter in the form of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) — have suggested Congress discuss the long-term implications of last week’s court order that would compel Apple to assist the FBI in gaining entry to an iPhone used by Syed Rizwan Farook.

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