iPhone Hearing Canceled as FBI Tests Hack Without Apple’s Help – Bloomberg Business, 22 March 2016

“There’s a lot of people right now who are curious who this third party is,” said David O’Brien, a senior researcher with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. “It appears the FBI turned away from the opportunity to test its case in court and get a ruling that could have set a precedent.”

Source: iPhone Hearing Canceled as FBI Tests Hack Without Apple’s Help – Bloomberg Business

Tim Cook, Meet Aaron Burr: Why The Encryption Fight Is As Old As The Constitution – Forbes, 19 March 2016

“It’s an area with a lot of nuance in the Constitution,” said David O’Brien, senior researcher at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Article I of the Constitution clearly gives Congress broad authority to “provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States,” he said.

Source: Tim Cook, Meet Aaron Burr: Why The Encryption Fight Is As Old As The Constitution – Forbes

FBI wants Apple to unlock iPhone confiscated in Dorchester gang case – The Boston Globe, 15 March 2016

Bruce Schneier, a security technologist at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society and a critic of the government’s request, said the Apple case raises a keen national question: “Do we want security or surveillance?”

Source: FBI wants Apple to unlock iPhone confiscated in Dorchester gang case – The Boston Globe