They deliberately didn’t ask how it was done—because the White House, under its own rules about disclosing most vulnerabilities to manufacturers, might have been forced to clue in Apple. Obama, the constitutional law professor, never solved this problem. And he never implemented the recommendation from his own advisory panel that the government encourage the use of more and more encryption. He told his aides that years of daily warnings in the President’s Daily Brief about terrorist activity around the world had altered his view: The United States simply could not agree to any rules that
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