It may have to do with this: http://www.wsj.com/articles/senate-intel-committee-chairman-working-on-encryption-bill-1455832584 http://www.wsj.com/articles/senat

It may have to do with this: http://www.wsj.com/articles/senate-intel-committee-chairman-working-on-encryption-bill-1455832584 http://www.wsj.com/articles/senate-intel-committee-chairman-... An encryption bill that is being worked on by the Senate that would try and make it a crime to not help the government decrypt messages from smart phone or other device. Suddenly these courts find they can't get evidence to convict people if their phone is encrypted and so are the messages. So they want tools to decrypt the messages to get the evidence.