Apple’s Encryption Battle

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• When the FBI requested data from Apple, Apple provided and complies with what they can to help. That should be good enough. Now the FBI wanted to take a step further by building a backdoor to Apple’s customer is like asking them to give them the company’s master key along with their customer house key. That is creepy for me and maybe a little upsetting for users privacy. There are some authorities that are misguided, informers, and a little showoff (careless) to worry about as well. A little slip can cause a lot of damage in terms of hacking.

  What I am trying to say is building a backdoor is not necessary. If Apple refuses to help when danger occurs, than building a backdoor is actually a good idea somewhat. In this case, Apple are willing to help and that may be all the FBI needs. There are no need to potentially cause more issues.

• I believe apple is doing the right thing by refusing to develop decryption (software has not yet been made) The FBI says it will only be used once but once you develop it the damage is done and the potential for misuse is to high. An argument is made that it is for our safety but Ben Franklin said it best
  “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”

• http://www.cnet.com/news/apple-says-investigators-ruined-most-promising-way-to-access-terrorist-data/

  More information on this news story.

• My opinion is that Apple is doing what is right is not Apple’s fault that the shooter owned an iPhone. Apple has done what is on their hands to help the FBI by providing the information that is available to them provided by that certain user. More than that is no longer Apple’s responsibility to be pressure to corrupt a software that has been worked for years. Apple can’t undo what they have done for years to develop in their security software, that’s throwing away the hard work of engineers that have worked day and night to develop a great job to keep the user’s privacy safe. Apple should not recreate their morals just because the government is in need of information they can find by accesing the iCloud of the iPhone’s owner and the mobile service provider. This is only a way for the government to be creating an excuse to invade our privacy

• I believe Apple is doing the right thing. People have their life on that one device from health information to credit cards and even more with the new Apple Watch. These devices know are everyday life, they know where we go, they how many steps we make each day. The FBI should receipt our privacy.