FBI vs Apple By devesh Kumar

“I have heard about this issue. Basically, the FBI wants Apple to build stuff into their phones that allow them to track or backtrack that data. The real legal issue is whether or not the government can make a corporation produce a product with certain thing in it. I think there are restrictions on what corporations can produce. I personally don’t support Apple’s decision. I have heard that they don’t even have the capacity or software to even have that technology within their iOS. They can’t do it even if they wanted to or even if the government may want them to.”—Anthony Robinson, senior

“I don’t think they should release anything because it's their own secure information and Apple doesn’t want to release it, then they shouldn’t have to.”—Alyvia Swearingen, freshman

“I support Apple’s decision. If hackers get a hold of this—which if this happens, then it is very likely that they will get a hold of this—then that backdoor would give them easy access to any apple product. They could use this information not for good stuff so we don’t want that. Also, Apple hasn’t developed a software yet so they would have to make something completely new which would take them a long time and they don’t want to do this anyway. There is also no guarantee that the government would only use it this one time because the government is very notorious for going and doing stuff without people’s permission.”—Dilan Kurukulasuriya, sophomore

“Normally I wouldn’t agree with disturbing somebody’s privacy. We wouldn’t want everyone to be hacking into our phones. I feel like in this case, it should be acceptable because the phone could have plans for the future and it could have stuff that we might need to know that could save many lives from being lost.”—Michelle Wu, junior

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