iPhones or EYEPHONES?

On a sunny "December 2, 2015 at the Island Regional Center in San Bernardino, California, 14 people were killed and 22 were seriously injured in a terrorist attack, which consisted of a mass shooting and an attempted bombing."

 The terrorists who started this mess are Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik, a married couple living in he city of Redlands. After the shooting happened, the couple fled in a rented SUV with a bunch of police after them. After a very long 4 hour chase, the police were able to catch up to them and kill them during a shootout.

The FBI investigated their home and found lots of weapons, ammunition, and bomb-making equipment in their home. The FBI were able to get a hold of their handheld devices, iPhones, which lead to the assumptions of the terrorists being in contact with other terrorists that might be in the same area or perhaps in other areas as well.

When the FBI tried to unlock the iPhone they failed numerous times. Keep note that after 10 unsuccessful attempts at unlocking, an iPhone will erase itself. The FBI is trying to avoid this. The FBI demanded Apple to create a key to unlock the iPhones so the FBI can take a look at their contacts and information.

http://www.englishblog.com/2016/02/cartoon-apple-vs-the-fbi.html#.Vu9XUeIrIuU

In this image I show above is a little humorous comic of how the FBI introduce and enter people's homes saying, "FBI! Open the door!". The iPhone has a voice activated assistance named Siri and the FBI is asking Siri to unlock the device for them because they are the FBI.

Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, declined the demand saying that making this "key" may lead to many other iPhone users to be at risk.

Tim Cook immediately wrote a letter to customers explaining why he is refusing the demand. Saying that the government will use this chance to spy on everyone who owns an iPhone. Including the fact that once this "key" is made, many other people will figure out ways to find this key and hack into other people's iPhones.

Which is very dangerous considering the fact people keep credit card information in their hand held devices these days. "Apple is now working on security improvements that would make it impossible for the company to help the government unlock newer iPhones with software." Tim Cook stated that Apple would take the issue all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary.

The FBI is in a tight spot because their only response to why they need the phones to be unlocked so badly is so they can prevent more terrorists attacks from happening if they get a hold of the terrorist's contacts and information, but really they have the "key" to hack into billions of user's iPhones, which means that they have another tool for the NSA.

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http://blogs.denverpost.com/opinion-cartoons/2016/02/24/cartoons-of-the-day-apple-vs-the-fbi/45350/

This image states my main concern of why I assume that the government is trying to use the hacking key to hack into billions of innocent citizen's iPhones and begin spying their every movement.

http://www.cagle.com/tag/icloud/

This image explains how the FBI demands a decription device and since they are the FBI they have the right reason to have the hack device now, but Apple do not see the reason as a very good one because this is the first time in years that the FBI are desperate for a hacking device on iPhones. Making Apple assume that they want to use the hacking device as another tool to spy on people.

I side with Apple on this one because of the truth of the NSA watching over us through messages and more bothers me. So even that the FBI swear that they will use the key to only use it for this phone but how can we trust that? After knowing about what the NSA has done to our rights of privacy. 

The FBI will eventually come to a conclusion to just hack into everybodies iPhone for "preventing more terrorist attacks". Just ruining the whole meaning of Rights of Privacy. 

In the The Crucible when Danforth tells John Proctor that his wife is pregnant and that she can come back for a year until she gives birth. Danforth asks John Proctor if this entire purpose is to only save his wife than he will take care of her until she delivers, but John Proctor declines this request because it will risk everyone else to be killed. This is unreasonable burden for John Proctor because saving his wife will lead to ending the lives of his neighbors. This is just like how the FBI tells that they want a key to iPhones, but Apple say that it is too much for them to do.