My Thoughts on Apple vs FBI

I was asked the other day about my thoughts on #Apple vs the #FBI in regard to Apple unlocking the iPhone of the killer in the San Bernardino shootings.

I said that IF it's a single incidence of unlocking then they should help but that I doubted that the FBI would keep it at this single incidence.

I have since been reading that, in fact, the FBI has plans for many phones to be unlocked if Apple were to unlock this one phone. I also found out that the FBI doesn't want Apple to unlock the phone but wants Apple to write a program that will unlock it and give that program to the FBI. I also found out that the phone was unlocked the day the FBI got it and they were the ones who changed the password on it, effectively preventing Apple from recovering the data the FBI was looking for from the shooter's iCloud account.

I've seen people post that nothing is private anymore, that people have their whole lives online, that there are facial recognition cameras all over the place so why not have Apple make the unlock software and give it to the FBI?

Well, here are my thoughts now.
The FBI and the government would love to have access to all of our information, our cell phone data, our computer data, all of it; so would people who want to steal our identities, our bank account information, etc. By unlocking the security we have on our devices and technology, it opens us up to everything, and you can be sure that the government and hackers won't stop at just getting our profile information, like the things most people post online and share to the public. No, they're looking for ALL of our information and won't be satisfied until they get it.

The FBI had access to the shooter's information, until they didn't. It was their fault. What? They had it until they changed the password. The FBI have had people tell them that they can hack into that one phone if they just want that information but haven't heard back from the FBI because it's obvious that the FBI doesn't want the information from just that one phone but from hundreds of phones and then some. I feel a lot of the general population feels it's okay because it's a national security issue, but that's only one case. It goes much deeper than this one case. I'm not willing to give up that much of my freedom to the government.

My Thoughts on #Trump and His Followers

My thoughts on #Trump and his followers:

I see so much on Facebook about #Trump and his followers, how they are racists, undereducated, haters and more. I see my more #liberal friends grouping whole #conservative groups that same way. 

I want to say that I don't agree with Trump or his beliefs but I do have thoughts one why I feel he's doing so well in the polls and primaries and I'm going to spell it out here.

There is a large part of the country that is tired of "politics as usual". They are tired of everyone getting a participation trophy when there are clear winners and losers. They are tired of the absence of  common sense in the school districts when it comes to reactions to normal activities. They are tired about having their parental rights taken from them by governmental agencies who "think" they know best. They are tired of politicians dividing the country based on race, economics, sex and religion. They are tired of politicians making all of the rules, or changing the rules to fit their agendas, with total disregard to what the people of the country want or need. They are tired of the total lack of transparency that is going on with the government, at all levels. They are tired of being forced to just accept things being forced upon them, and if they don't like it they are penalized with fines, or having their children kicked out of school, or losing their jobs. They are tired of politics being bought and paid for by several companies that seem to control everything, from who gets elected to who gets jobs in key government jobs where their decisions affect millions.

They are trying to get those things changed and they are going with the one who is making the most noise about it. I don't feel that all of Trump's followers really feel the same way he does about all things, but they see him as someone who may be able to change the "politics as usual". The problem here is much deeper than #Trump and his followers.

Those are just my thoughts.