Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Apple being eaten by FBI

On December 2nd 2015, 2 terrorists killed 14 innocent people in San Bernardino, California and injured many more. This mass shooting has caused problems in the government and its laws and a new problem for a major company in electronics, Apple. It all started when a married couple by the names of Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik walked in the inland Regional center in San Bernardino and caused this horrible act of violence. The police were able to chase them down and kill them in a shootout, and when they went to their homes they were able to find weapons, bombs, and other terrorist equipment. But most importantly the FBI was able to get a hold of one of their iPhone where there might be access to many more terrorists contacts, plans etc. The problem is, when the FBI tried to unlock the iPhone numerous times and they failed and when an iPhone has 10 attempts to unlock it will erase itself and the FBI is trying to avoid this.by this the FBI demanded apple to create a new backdoor software to allow them to hack into the terrorist iPhone.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook has refused to create the new software because the software has never been created and it would cost millions of dollars to make it.But most of all millions of iphones would be at risk with the new software created to hack into a iPhone with all of someone's personal information .Also the company is afraid that the FBI would use this to spy on other people and invade privacy of users around the country. Apple is working on creating a more advanced security for iphones to make it impossible to unlock it.
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All of this relates to The Crucible because during that time period in Salem men had more power to women and were only allowed to do house work while men provided the needs for the family. Women gained power by knowing who did witchcraft or had contact with the devil. Or they would just accuse the people for hatred or vengeance or love like Abigail did with john proctor. The FBI says that its only for unlocking one iPhone but who knows the government might be lying the whole time and use this new software for their advantage.

 http://time.com/4262480/tim-cook-apple-fbi-2/


2 comments:

  1. Walter - please go back in and hyperlink your text when you're bringing in information from your article. Don't just slap your link in at the end. Fix this, please.

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    1. Also, what do women's rights have to do with Apple vs. FBI? Please clarify.

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