Syed Rizwan Farook who was responsible
for killing 14 people in San Bernardino, CA left his iPhone 5C at the crime
scene. The F.B.I cannot access this cellphone because his iPhone password is
encrypted and the iPhone was designed to keep people’s information private.
This incident has opened the debate
between the F.B.I and Apple administrators about the phone’s accessibility to one’s
privacy. The F.B.I argument was that homes, cars and computers should not have
unbreakable locks. In addition, they pointed out that computers and cellphones
should not use passwords to keep the information secret forever. The F.B.I asked
Apple to write a software program that would allow the government to have
access to Farook’s cellphone. On the other hand, Apple argued that people keep
their life events electronically, so it is not ethical that government has access
to peoples’ private information.
Timothy Cook, chief executive of Apple,
said that he was going to fight against this demand because unencrypting iPhones
creates a dangerous precedent. Mr. Cook maintained that he understands the
urgency of the FBI access. However, the worry is that once the FBI has access
to Farook’s information everyone’s privacy will be in danger because nobody can
guarantee that this accessibility is not going to be used again.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/18/us/politics/whether-phones-should-lock-out-the-fbi.html?_r=0
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