Take this easy true/false quiz to figure out what's going on with the Apple, the FBI and smartphone encryption.
1. If the iPhone is the favored smartphone of criminals and terrorists for security and privacy, then we should be using an Android phone instead for our banking and credit card purchases.
• True
• False
2. If Apple builds the "govtOS" that the FBI wants Apple to build, and defense attorneys are obligated to have a copy, (by the 6th Amendment), it will never be leaked because all defense attorney laptops and servers are impregnable.
• True
• False
3. If Apple resists building a backdoor into its iPhones for the sake of good security, then the U.S. Government should boycott Apple and switch to the purchase of less secure phones for their own use.
• True
• False
4. The San Bernardino iPhone might contain a horrific cyber pathogen, or worse, that could lead to massive destruction. So Apple should get on board.
• True
• False
5. No former head of the NSA or Homeland Security disagrees with the FBI.
• True
• False
6. Apple's most bitter competitors think Apple is wrong in this affair.
• True
• False
7. If criminals and terrorists use an iPhone because it's extremely secure and keeps data private, then if you use an iPhone, logically, you must be a terrorist also.
• True
• False
8. Support for Apple is waning, and the stock is in decline.
• True
• False
9. No other court, in a similar case, has found for Apple and scolded the government for overreach.
• True
• False
10. It's more important to take away rights than to grant rights because fighting terrorism on a any scale always trumps the U.S. Constitution on a grand scale and for all time.
• True
• False
How did you score?