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What is Apple? Apple is a multinational technology company. So far Apple has had a problem with the FBI. The FBI wanted Apple to create a new software that can hack into a person’s iPhone to examine their personal information, but Apple refused. Apple’s decision on not allowing the FBI to hack into people’s iPhone was right. In the article entitled PRO/CON: Should Apple have resisted FBI pressure to hack an iPhone? By Tribune New Service, examines the area in which Apple had the right or not to refuse FBI orders. The articles published that in the last December (2015), Farook and his wife killed 14 people during mass in San Bernardino, California. The FBI then wanted to hack into Farook’s iPhone hoping to find information about the attack,

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