Apple fighting off The FBI

By:Kyle Thomas
Twitter: @Kyle_T8

Tim Cook the chief executive officer of Apple Inc., wrote a letter that gained a lot of attention recently. On February 16th, the letter hit the internet. The case is centered around the main suspect of the San Bernardino shooting. The government has his iPhone and they want to open it to get additional information. They have tried and failed 10 times, so now the iPhone is locked. The FBI now wants Apple to open it for them.

Apple Campus (Photo Taken:By Joe Ravi, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16380592)

So when I first read the headline I thought, why won't Apple help the FBI? Well hang on it's not that simple. If Apple were to give in and open this suspects iPhone, they would have to create new technology that could cause major consequences. "Now the U.S. government has asked us for something we simply do not have, and something we consider too dangerous to create. They have asked us to build a backdoor to the iPhone," Cook said.

FBI Logo - Photo taken by Federal Bureau of Investigation - Extracted from PDF version of a DNI 100-day plan followup report (direct PDF URL here)., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8891011

"The United States government has demanded that Apple take an unprecedented step which threatens the security of our customers. We oppose this order, which has implications far beyond the legal case at hand," Cook said. 

As a iPhone user I like how Apple is standing up for the privacy of their users. This could turn into a huge risk if the program gets in the wrong hands. This isn't about the San Bernardino case, this about the Government trying to have too much control. What do you guys think? It makes me feel more secure about owning a iPhone. They probably didn't intend on this happening but this is a accidentally boost for the Apple brand.