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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.
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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.
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• 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.
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• False
6. Apple's most bitter competitors think Apple is wrong in this affair.
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• 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.
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8. Support for Apple is waning, and the stock is in decline.
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• False
9. No other court, in a similar case, has found for Apple and scolded the government for overreach.
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• 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
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