When you first hear this story you think wow!, what a dilemma! keep my privacy or stop terrorism, but relax, if the FBI or anybody else wanted to know who was called from or who called into this alleged terrorist’s cell phone, the cell carrier (Verizon, at&t, T-Mobile etc,) has a complete public record of all activity from any phone on their network including this one, so what’s up?
Why is the government wanting to break down the encryption on this particular Apple device, an encryption which is designed to simply stop a thief or somebody who doesn’t own this phone from being able to use it. This encryption is a deterrent to thieves, why steal a phone if you can’t use it or sell it? Creating this back door will only help thieves.
The government already has complete access to all call records, not sure what they’re after here.
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thanks to knowledgeable commenters my opinion has evolved, my point was always that why hack the phone when law enforcement can get the same info somewhere else, but, it seems there could be a lots of stuff on the phone that might help law enforcement that’s not on a network server. However, the FBI could simply get a few other phones like this one, and they have guys that can write software and defeat encryption and once defeated, they could simply hack the phone in question themselves, so, again, there is something more going on in this effort to make Apple capitulate