Thursday, February 25, 2016
An Apple a Day...
Currently what is happening is that a Court Judge has ordered Apple to create a decryption key to get into the phone of one of the San Bernardino shooters."...the FBI wants Apple to disable the security feature. Once the security is crippled, agents would be able to guess as many combinations as possible." The tech giant has gone against this stating "Smartphones, led by iPhone, have become an essential part of our lives. People use them to store an incredible amount of personal information, from our private conversations to our photos, our music, our notes, our calendars and contacts...All that information needs to be protected from hackers and criminals who want to access it, steal it, and use it without our knowledge or permission" the government could use the key to unlock anyones phone. The NSA stated that it would be used to find contacts that were members of terrorist groups and figure out who helped them. It would help better protect civilians for if there are any other occurrences of this. I don’t think that the government has the authority to make Apple make them such a key, it goes against every Apple product owner, and the risk of someone hacking into Apple and stealing this is almost certain. I wonder if this actually goes through if Apple will create brand new firewalls to stop these hackers? And if they don’t what will the government do with the phone?
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