By Andrea Noble – The Washington Times – Wednesday, February 17, 2016

de.wikipedia.orgA seminal showdown in the long-running fight over government access to private communication is brewing over the judicial order to compel tech giant Apple to help the FBI hack the cellphone of one of the San Bernardino jihadis.

Fearing Tuesday’s ruling could give law enforcement unprecedented access to data stored on cellphones of everyday consumers, privacy advocates are rallying in support of Apple after CEO Tim Cook pledged Wednesday to fight what he described as a government overreach that would force the company to devise a “backdoor” to its encryption security features.

 The Obama administration Wednesday tried to downplay concern that the ruling might set a wide-ranging precedent as a handful of presidential candidates, and even former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, also stepped into the fray…. read more here