Summary Of FBI V. Apple Is Really About Edward Snowden

In the article “FBI v. Apple Is Really About Edward Snowden” by Ted Rall, Rall speaks about the recent conflict between the U.S. government and the electronics company Apple. He first summarizes the recent conflict, in which Apple has refused to give the FBI the code to unlock the phone of Syed Farook, the head of the San Bernardino mass shooting. The reason behind Apple not releasing the code, says Rall, is that with this code the iPhones of many other people can also be accessed, not just the one needed. Yet here in this article Rall is saying that this is much different due to one man, and that is Edward Snowden. Rall states how a few years ago, Americans would have undeniably been against what Apple is currently refusing to do, it would

Rall then shows that large companies such as Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, and Yahoo, have decided to back up Apple in their decision. These companies themselves had experienced terrible losses in their reputations and billions of dollars in business due to similar allegations brought upon by Edward Snowden. He then goes on to say how the government created specific branches of security just for this one reason, and yet they still fail to do their jobs due to their restrictions. Such as the FBI, they are legally allowed to eavesdrop on the Americans, yet they have no access to the terrorist’s smartphone, and the NSA who has access to such things is prohibited from gathering anything sent from one American to another American. He makes a final statement saying that it is most certain that the NSA has the contents of Farook’s phone yet they are unable to do anything with it due to the laws put into

A company such as Apple should be left to the consequences of their own decisions, they don’t seem to need some columnist to defend them. Although on the other hand it was quite interesting to hear about how the government security agencies are not able to do what they need to do due to certain government regulations. Shouldn’t it be that with such cases such as these they should be able to have access to what they need. Instead they have to leave it up to an unreliable company, who is most certainly looking for their own benefits, to give them the information they need. It was also odd to see that this article was not about politics, as Rall was a person who was all about endorsing Sanders. It seems to be that now that the primaries are in full swing, and Sanders is currently losing, he has lost all hope. It is disappointing to see such a thing as a Sanders follower myself. I believe that anything can happen, it is possible that this is due to my inexperience in the subject, but I still think that Sanders to pull through. It’s sad to see a person who was so overly enthusiastic about Sanders all of a sudden stop writing about him, instead he turns to some controversy that has been barely spoken about. If anything I feel that this is the time that he need to show that the Democrats need to over power the Republicans at