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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Questions
1. What type of cell phone did the FBI recover the day after the massacre in San Bernardino, CA?
2. What operating system was the iPhone5c running?
3. What network was it on?
4. What was the iPhone's serial number?
5. Why couldn't the FBI just hack the 4 digit pass code?
6. Who owned the iPhone?
7. Who else didn't have the encrypted pass code?
8. Who is the CEO of Apple?
9. Where is Apple's headquarters?
10. Who reset the iCloud password?
11. What was the FBI's request to Apple?
12. What is the idea that the FBI requested called at Apple?
13. When did the FBI obtain a court order from a federal judge that required Apple to create GovtOs under something called the All Writs Act?
14. Who from the U.N. spoke out in Apple's defense?
15. What was Apple's main reason not to help the FBI?
16. What will be the Holy Grail for hackers?
17. Which two legal scholars have coined this time as the Golden Age of Surveillance?
18. What technology in 1993 was the government afraid of?
19. What is the Clipper Chip?
20. When did the government decide not to legislate encryption?
21. Who got 22 million personal records hacked?
22. When will the Federal Government and Apple meet at federal court?


Reference
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