Locals weigh in on Apple-U.S. Gov’t situation

A federal judge has ordered Apple to help the FBI unlock the cell phone of Syed Rizwan Farook, the gunman responsible for the San Bernardino terror attack. Apple however has been hesitant to comply.

Currently, iPhones wipe themselves clean after 10 incorrect password attempts. The FBI is asking the company to remove that feature, making it possible for them to try millions of different combinations. CEO Tim Cook said Apple will fight the request because it could potentially create a backdoor hack into the iPhones of millions of other people.

Earlier we spoke with a few locals who side with that thinking. “Yeah, it’s really an issue. That will cause them to break into everybody else’s cell phones and everybody with an apple phone,” said Charles Turner of Princess Anne. Donald Adkins of Salisbury also weighed in, he told us, “I don’t agree with it because it’s my business,” and “I don’t agree with it because it’s my business,”.

Cook calls this a case of government overreach that has implications beyond the this particular case. He says the “master key” requested would be capable of opening hundreds-of-millions of locks.