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Customer Letter From Apple

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Backdoor Letter

Both sides are right. You should protect your information, but you should also give it to the government. If there is a crime, and a phone has the information on it, but you don’t know the pass code, you want to have as many tries as you need. Michael Hayden, a former CIA director would have agreed with the government if he was still a part of the CIA, because it would have made his work easier. He said, “In this specific case, I’m trending toward the government, but I’ve got to tell you in general I oppose the government’s effort” (USA Today). If you have personal information on your phone, you don’t want people to get to it, so you want to have a limited amount of tries. You want to also have an unlimited amount of tries, just in case you forgot your pass code and you don’t want anyone to erase the information if you try too many times.

I agree with Apple, because even though the government wants a backdoor, I don’t want someone to get into my phone and mess with it. I want to keep my private information private. “If the government can use the All Writs Act to make it easier to unlock your iPhone, it would have the power to reach into anyone’s device to capture their data” Customer Letter From Apple. With a backdoor, anyone could get into a phone and mess with it. That is why I don’t want a backdoor in the Apple phones.

Thoughts…

If the US government can tell Apple what to do, why can’t other governments like Russian, or Chinese?

What if the government will start asking Android and other companies to create a backdoor?