John Oliver On Apple Vs FBI [VIDEO]

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Apple’s refusal to create a backdoor that would help the FBI get into an iPhone that once belonged to a terrorist caused a number of reactions from businessmen, IT experts and politicians. Few, however, have the ability to summarize different aspects of a complex issue (and throw in a few jokes) as comedian John Oliver, who dissected the case in Sunday’s episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. In the 18-minute segment, Oliver reminds us of a similar case in the 90’s, when the U.S. government was bent on creating the Clipper chip, an encryption device with a built-in backdoor for monitoring phone calls — a plan that fell through a few years after its inception in 1993.