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DMCA is about copyright. Breaking encryption has nothing to do with it except insofar as the encryption is protecting copyrighted data.

• rconti 11y ago
  I think parent is referring to access control circumvention under the DMCA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-circumvention#United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-circumvention#United_Stat...
  • ikeboy 11y ago
    >No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title Which, as I said, refers to encryption protecting copyrighted works as a means of control.
    • mosburger 11y ago
      Is it possible that Farook had some copyrighted material on his phone?
      • ikeboy 11y ago
        I think that's irrelevant. The encryption needs to be a means of control like DRM, not just copyrighted material that happens to be encrypted. Edit: >a technological measure "effectively controls access to a work" if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, requires the application of information, or a process or a treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain access to the work. So encryption that doesn't depend on the authority of a copyright owner isn't affected.