Summary: Should Apple Help The FBI

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Should Apple help the FBI? After the San bernardino shooting the FBI needed to get call files from the shooters phone. The FBI decided to go to Apple for help in getting those files. Unexpectedly Apple refused to decrypt the files and the FBI had to find another company. Apple should of helped the FBI even though it does invade the privacy of the people. The FBI was trying keep another attack from happening and Apple was just slowing them down.
I think that Apple should of done it even though they didn’t have to because if the FBI couldn’t find another company then they wouldn’t have any information about the suspect and if he came from another group. In the article, PRO/CON: Should Apple have resisted FBI pressure to hack an iPhone? It says

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