Final Exam
More than 700 million Iphones have been sold globally in 2015 (Costello). Iphones contain an unbelievable amount of personal information. From financial information, to emails, texts, photos, and passwords; imagine all that information being easily accessible to anyone. The FBI is currently trying to convince Apple to give them a “backdoor” to a particular phone. What the FBI fails to realize is how dangerous this could be for anyone else. Tim Cook, the chief executive of Apple, explains the consequences of creating the “backdoor” when he wrote:
The government suggests this tool could only be used once, on one phone. But that’s simply not true. Once created, the technique could be used over and over again, on any number of devices.
More than 700 million Iphones have been sold globally in 2015 (Costello). Iphones contain an unbelievable amount of personal information. From financial information, to emails, texts, photos, and passwords; imagine all that information being easily accessible to anyone. The FBI is currently trying to convince Apple to give them a “backdoor” to a particular phone. What the FBI fails to realize is how dangerous this could be for anyone else. Tim Cook, the chief executive of Apple, explains the consequences of creating the “backdoor” when he wrote:
The government suggests this tool could only be used once, on one phone. But that’s simply not true. Once created, the technique could be used over and over again, on any number of devices.