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Saturday, April 23, 2016

Inside Apple's Code War, The World's most powerful tech company is fighting the FBI on terrorism. Why? by Lev Grossman

Magazine: Time Magazine
Date: March 28, 2016
Article: Inside Apple's Code War, The World's most powerful tech company is fighting the FBI on terrorism.  Why?
Page: 44
Author:  Lev Grossman
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Comment:  This article is in Apple's perspective.  It is a good introduction for middle school and high school students to understand the issue in hand.

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1. The FBI recovered an iPhone 5c the day after the massacre in San Bernardino, CA.
2. The iPhone 5C was running iOS9 operating system.
3. The iPhone 5c was on the Verizon Network.
4. The iPhone 5c's serial number is FFMNQ3MTG2DJ.
5. The iPhone 5c was programmed to erase itself after 10 wrong guesses.
6. San Bernardino County owned the iPhone 5c.
7. San Bernardino County and Apple didn't have the encrypted pass code.
8. Tim Cook is the CEO of Apple.
9. Apple's headquarters is in Cupertino, California.
10. San Bernardino County reset the iCloud password.
11. The FBI wanted Apple to code up a new version of iOS9 without the 10-guess limit and then persuade the San Bernardino phone to install it.
12. GovtOS, FBI request, is what they call it at Apple.
13. On February 16, 2016, the FBI obtained a court order from a federal judge that required Apple to create GovtOS under something called the All Writs Act.
14. Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights
15. Their reason was technical.  They were afraid that if they created GovtOS, it may get out to the public and compromise every iPhone everywhere.
16. GovtOS will be the Holy Grail for Hackers.
17. Peter Swire and Kenesa Ahmad coined this time as the Golden Age of Surveillance.
18. Encryption is the technology in 1993 that the government was afraid of.
19. The Clipper Chip is a device that would encrypt digital communication while allowing the government to keep a key.
20. In 2000, the U.S. Government decided not to legislate encryption.
21. The Federal Office of Personnel Management got hacked and 22 million personal records were compromised.
22. The Federal Government and Apple will meet in federal court on March 22, 2016, in Riverside, California.

Reference
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