Thursday, February 25, 2016

The article I chose to do my assignment on is from the Texas Insider and is titled Apple's Involuntary Servitude.

The audience that the author is trying to reach is really everyone who uses a cellphone.  I think the author Judge Andrew Napolitano is in shock at how this situation was handled and not only how it was handled how the outcome turned out.  

The Judge in his article states that the DOJ argued that apple has a legal duty to help solve the mystery of who knew about the San Bernardino attacks so that the guilty can be prosecuted and the rest of of protected from future harm.  
Because Apple denied to help them the DOJ made a key of there own to access the perps phone. 
The warrant was granted although improperly because Apple was not given notice of the DOJ application.   Indeed the Judge states that " this is the most unique search warrant I have ever seen in 40 years of examining them."

The article goes on to say that "essentially, the DOJ wants apple to hack its product, thereby telling anyone who can access the key how to do the same. Apple also knows that if it does create a key for the government that the key itself is at risk of being hacked and therefore jeopardizing all Apple Products and negating the privacy of tens of millions. You know but the lawyers asserted that the government would protect the key apple creates.....

The Judge also goes on to say that the DOJ knows where the data is on the killers cellphone but does not want to make it look like it does because then that would put the lie that the government's denials that it spies upon all of us all the time moot.  

At the end of the article the judge states that more than just the security of our phones are at risk here. He says that he says that " A government that stays within the confines of the constitution is at stake."

So I agree with Judge Andrew P. Napolitano.  I think that the way the DOJ handled itself is wrong.  I dont think that Apple should need to compromise the integrity of there security systems and protocols in order to help the DOJ with an investigation.  Because not only would this compromise Apples security but it would just be one step closer to the government having full access to all our information.  Also like the article said if the key gets out there hackers surely will find a way to access it and then they will also have full access to everything. 

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