The Master Key Of Iphones, Unethical, And The New Era Of Technology

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The Master Key to Iphones is Unethical

The San Bernardino vs Government case has been in the news for the last months since the terrorist attack last December. It has reminded the world the importance of encryption which is essential for our lives and privacy in this new era of technology. After the attack, the FBI asked Apple for help to access an iphone that belonged to Syed Rizwan Farook one of the perpetrators of the attack, Because the FBI could not access it due to the modern encryption and security features new iphones have. Apple was not completely oppose to help the FBI. The company helped with everything could without violating the privacy of its customers. Apple gave access to the backup data stored in iCloud from Farook’s iphone, but the data obtained was six weeks prior to attack. The FBI still needed more private information from the iphone such as, texts, phone calls and GPS locations after the attack. Apple is now being forced by the federal court to create a software to bypass the security features of the iphone to completely access its data. Apple is refusing to create this software because the company says this would put in danger the privacy of every Apple customer. The company says that once they create this backdoor to the iphone, they cannot guarantee to keep it safe. Because once created it can be modified to open infinite amount of iphones and access their data. Many people are concern about this issue and most experts agree that if the program is created more security issues will arise, not only within individuals, but national and possibly international security issues since technology is now all over the word.

Encryption, the language of computers and smartphones is essential. Most people take for gr...

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...h this device that can be disabled because it contain its own key to be encrypted. After great opposing and more complex encryption methods the government lost interest in the chip.

If apple loses the battle in court and is forced to create the backdoor to that one iphone, the U. S government can possibly then access private information from anyone that owns an iphone. Because no one is guaranteeing this will not happen. Another main problem then would be protect the key from hackers which apple said already they cannot do. In this era, if one person really wants to send encrypted data to another person there are applications that can do this easily. So they government have to then go after those companies creating those applications, some of those companies are not even in American soil, not to mentioned terrorist can use this application to plan another attack.

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