TV's 'Mr. Robot' will take on encryption as Apple's battle with the FBI rages on<article>
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<p>For its second season,
Mr. Robot will weigh in on the current spat between Apple and the FBI with a fictional storyline involving encryption and law enforcement.</p><p>“What’s weird is we were already going [into the new season] talking thematically about privacy, and then this whole thing with Apple and Tim Cook happened,” Sam Esmail said during the
Mr. Robot panel at South By Southwest on Sunday. The creator of the hacker drama was joined on stage by
Mr. Robot cast members Rami Malek and Christian Slater, who talked about wanting to depict hacking and cyber crime on TV in an authentic way. </p><p>Esmail said that he addressed the encryption issue with the show’s FBI consultants, who had an unsurprising opinion on the public debate over citizens’ right to privacy. But that doesn’t mean that the creator necessarily agreed with them.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3043658/entertainment/tvs-mr-robot-will-take-on-encryption-as-apples-battle-with-the-fbi-rages-on.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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TV's 'Mr. Robot' will take on encryption as Apple's battle with the FBI rages on
