Signaling Post-Snowden Era, New iPhone Locks Out N.S.A.
By DAVID E. SANGER and BRIAN X. CHEN SEPT. 26, 2014
WASHINGTON - Devoted customers of Apple products these days worry about whether the new iPhone 6 will bend in their jean pockets. The National Security Agency and the nation's law enforcement agencies have a different concern: that the smartphone is the first of a post-Snowden generation of equipment that will disrupt their investigative abilities.
The phone encrypts emails, photos and contacts based on a complex mathematical algorithm that uses a code created by, and unique to, the phone's user - and that Apple says it will not possess.
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