Hi again, it’s me. In d.lab last week we had a long discussion about what is currently going on between Apple and the F.B.I. We talked about how the government wants Apple to make a skeleton key that they can use to open any Apple iPhone in the world. But one of Apples arguments is that if that got into the wrong hands, Apple IDs and all these other passwords like credit card numbers or something really private could be stolen from anybody in the world who has an iPhone. I talked about it with my 1, 2, 3 split, and almost all of us agreed that Apple should win. But my mom told me a different argument.

My mom told me that even if the government gets that skeleton key they have been wanting so badly, when do they open up people’s personal information. After someone has been killed like the case that started this up? Or when the government just thinks that someone is going to commit a crime? Or after the crime has happened? Which one do they use because you will never really know when something like that is going to happen until it happens. Me? I can’t choose who’s side I’m on. I do think that it is unfair that the government wants to have a skeleton key but they don’t even know when the right time is to open up a phone if they suspect that person is going to commit a crime. What if they weren’t? That is called violating people’s privacy. But also the government has a good point as well. If they had access to all the iPhones around the world, they could maybe stop many more terrorist attacks by figuring out who people have been talking to. So I have mixed feeling about this, but I hope that whatever they figure out, solves all these problems.