Re: The Apple versus FBI
First of all, your right to bear arm ceases where it overlaps with my right of life, liberty and happiness. Farook gave up the right of privacy when he decided to kill innocent citizens.
The court order has nothing to do with violating constitutional rights. It is to make sure that FBI gets hold of the information to continue with the inquiry, that is directly attributed to a more pressing and important public interest
Problem is that Apple is not fighting the privacy right. Would Apple be equally worried about securing the privacy of iPhone users if the phone could be unlocked though the touch ID and FBI would use the thumbprint of deceased Farook? No. Apple wouldn't care much. It's clear that it's not the privacy of users, but the security of its technology that Apple is more concerned about.
Let me paint a picture for you....
Police need to find out everything they need to know about Farook. Apple gives them the "master key" aka encryption program. Yay - justice is served and now the FBI knows all about what Farook and his zohja-e-mohteram were up too.
But wait, their phone also has your name on it and your wife's and your children's and your nani-twice removed. Uh-oh - you have an Apple, right?
Now because the FBI has the technology, obtained straight from Apple, they no longer need to ask for a court order (Ed Snowden pretty much proved they don't anyhow), they will go right to your phone and access your data, and that of everyone else. But since you don't have an expectation of privacy, it's no big deal - its open season!
But hey, this is all in the interest of justice.
Personally, there should be a more reasonable middle ground so long as the FBI were only asking about one phone, or had a narrow defined search warrant. But they aren't asking for access to one phone. They are asking for technical knowledge for access to entry into all Apple phones.
Personally, does it bother me that the FBI get access to Farook's phone? Absolutely not! But why don't they hire hackers/IT techs who can grant them access? Why insist that a tech firm give them a backdoor key to all devices?
