John Oliver explains the FBI Apple encryption debacle

“There is no easy side to be on in this debate. Strong encryption has its costs, from protecting terrorists, to drug dealers, to child pornographers. But I happen to feel that the risks of weakening encryption, even a little bit, even just for the government, are potentially much worse.”

The FBI are demanding that Apple create a backdoor access to a phone that belonged to a terrorist but Apple is arguing that such a move opens a can of worms where FBI can request access to every phone of anyone they deem a threat. The case, understandably so, has created tensions between privacy advocates and the FBI.