The U.S. Government has asked Apple to create a new operating system for an iPhone recovered from the San Bernardino shooting. The phone will wipe all memory if the passcode is entered more than 10 times. The government wants Apple to create a system to get rid of this feature as explained by Tim Cook, CEO of Apple: “The government would have us remove security features and add new capabilities to the operating system, allowing a passcode to be input electronically. This would make it easier to unlock an iPhone by “brute force,” trying thousands or millions of combinations with the speed of a modern computer” (Cook). This could be catastrophic to Apple’s sales. This means that there is now a computer that can disable the security on your phone and that computer could be hacked by ANYONE, thus destroying the trust from Apple’s customers.
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Most of which is an argument of personal security over national security and vise versa. Also many citizens have their own ideas for why the conflict is going about:
The main conflict between the two sides? The FBI has essentially asked Apple to create a backdoor enabling investigators to hack the passcode for the phone in question (an iPhone 5C), while Apple warns that would compromise security and could be used to access information on other users' devices.
Most of which is an argument of personal security over national security and vise versa. Also many citizens have their own ideas for why the conflict is going about:
The main conflict between the two sides? The FBI has essentially asked Apple to create a backdoor enabling investigators to hack the passcode for the phone in question (an iPhone 5C), while Apple warns that would compromise security and could be used to access information on other users' devices.