Nt1310 Unit 2 Individual Assignment
Draft 2
Dear FBI, How comfortable would you be with a government having access to your personal information and data on your phone? A recent incident involving a terrorist attack in San Bernardino, sparked a controversy between Apple and the Federal Bureau of investigation. Following the attack by two individuals committed an act of terror, killing 14 people, the iPhone belonging to one of the terrorists was found. As you may know, your organization is requesting the court for Apple's forced assistance in weakening the encryption on an IPhone related to the San Bernardino terrorist attacks and supposedly has vital information on it. These terrorist attacks were performed by ISIS's lone wolves, named Syed Rizwan Farook, who owns the phone and Tashfeen Malik, his wife. In my opinion, the phone shouldn't be cracked for three reasons. First of all because it undermines America's founding principles and it …show more content…
This shows that weakening the encryption and even cracking the phone will break other people's rights to privacy and it would undermine America's founding principles and UDHR article 12 saying that "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy." With the greatest respect, I ask you to consider that the right to privacy is inalienable. This information was derived from the Los Angeles Times. A second reason to why the phone shouldn’t have to be cracked, is about the certainty that the data sought needed to investigate the terrorist attacks actually is on the phone? According to (Article title and author) there is no 100% guarantee that the information your organization wants is actually on the phone. This question was asked by David Auerbach, a software expert at the think tank New
Dear FBI, How comfortable would you be with a government having access to your personal information and data on your phone? A recent incident involving a terrorist attack in San Bernardino, sparked a controversy between Apple and the Federal Bureau of investigation. Following the attack by two individuals committed an act of terror, killing 14 people, the iPhone belonging to one of the terrorists was found. As you may know, your organization is requesting the court for Apple's forced assistance in weakening the encryption on an IPhone related to the San Bernardino terrorist attacks and supposedly has vital information on it. These terrorist attacks were performed by ISIS's lone wolves, named Syed Rizwan Farook, who owns the phone and Tashfeen Malik, his wife. In my opinion, the phone shouldn't be cracked for three reasons. First of all because it undermines America's founding principles and it …show more content…
This shows that weakening the encryption and even cracking the phone will break other people's rights to privacy and it would undermine America's founding principles and UDHR article 12 saying that "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy." With the greatest respect, I ask you to consider that the right to privacy is inalienable. This information was derived from the Los Angeles Times. A second reason to why the phone shouldn’t have to be cracked, is about the certainty that the data sought needed to investigate the terrorist attacks actually is on the phone? According to (Article title and author) there is no 100% guarantee that the information your organization wants is actually on the phone. This question was asked by David Auerbach, a software expert at the think tank New