The San Bernardino shooting was a tragic event and the next step to getting things back to normal is opening Syed Rizwan Farook’s iphone. The only way to open the iphone is if the FBI and Apple work together.
On December 2, 2015 in San Bernardino, a holiday party was being celebrated at the Inland Regional Center. Then two people walked in the building walked into the building and opened gunfire. There were 14 people dead and 22 people were injured. The two suspects fled in a black car. Then it turned in a car chase with the police. During the car chase, there was traded gunfire. The suspects rolled the car, leaving one body in the street and one …show more content…
The FBI believes Syed Rizwan Farook might have had contact with ISIS members or other terrorist groups. The FBI have backed up everything recent from Farook’s icloud. They are having trouble unlocking the iphone because there is a passcode. The FBI asked Apple to help them unlock the iphone by writing some new code, Apple refused. Apple designed the phone to be impossible to break into. When you open your iphone, you have 10 tries to open it and after you use all 10, the iphone will start to delete things and make you wait a small amount of time. The iphone let’s you make a password with as many numbers and letters as you want. Apple also made it impossible to hack into the iphone from a computer, you have to manually type in the passcode. The FBI wants Apple to write a code so they will be able to guess as many times as possible, Apple refused again. Apple then told the FBI that they made the iphone impossible to break into for customers privacy. Apple said that each iphone is set specifically for that user and only they know the code. The FBI then came back saying that they only want to open this one iphone and then delete the code. There could be potential terrorist contacts in that phone and other plans of what they were going to do. If there were terrorist contacts, that would help the government learn more about their tactics and what their plans are next so we can be ready to fight …show more content…
When it comes to unlocking the shooters iphone; Apple is willing to help, but they don’t want to create extra code. They believe that if they write a code it will make a “backdoor” for the FBI and hackers.If they write the code, they can help and unlock the iphone, but their company can be effected by it. If they create a “backdoor” the good guys can get in, but also can the bad guys. The FBI is saying that they want to create the code for the one phone then delete it. If Apple writes the code, then they can’t delete it because once you post something on the internet it will never go away. If Apple writes the code, it will reflect on their company forever. The code can potentially help hackers and terrorists because they can get into any iphone. The FBI is sending Apple a court order; Apple has to respond by February 26,