Apple has been battling the FBI for about a week or two now, and things are heating up. So a bit of backstory: The FBI asked Apple to create a "backdoor" to open up the iPhone of Syed Farook, the shooter in the worst terrorist attack in the United States since 9/11. The FBI claims that the iPhone could hold information on other terrorists and/or future attacks in the U.S.. However, Apple refuses to open the phone since they're concerned that if they were to create the backdoor, anyone's iPhone could be open by anyone who knows the backdoor, thus causing an invasion of privacy. Apparently, Apple is going to use the 1st Amendment to prove the FBI's demands unconstitutional, because software coding is protected under "free speech", as proved by precedent from the Supreme Court from a while back. I can see both sides of the argument, but I'm going to have to side with the FBI on this one. We need to be able to prevent further terrorist attacks, and if that involves unlocking an iPhone, so be it. Rather than teaching the FBI how to backdoor a phone, however, Apple should have a trusted employee unlock it for the FBI and then give it to them. In that way, the FBI or anyone outside the company will not know how to force open an iPhone, and Apple gets to keep the secret. At that point, if there is a security breach, then Apple has no one to blame besides themselves. After all this media attention this has been getting, Apple should still publicly refuse but unlock the phone in private, so that the FBI gets what they want and the company looks like they're still trying and winning.
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