FBI should have freedom to access iPhone
Regarding the front-page article (“Fight over gunman’s iPhone,” Feb. 18), it seems that some folks in our great country have gone plum out of their minds. If you have nothing to hide, why would anyone object to the FBI (or any other government agency that is involved in providing security for our country) having access to your communications? It is only the “bad guys” that should be concerned. If their ability to secretly plan and coordinate terroristic activities is reduced (or eliminated) by our security services, then we should give those services all the tools available. Otherwise we would resemble “Pogo” in the comic strips when he said, “We have met the enemy and they is us.” Let’s not do that. Give our security services all the freedom they require.
BOB GRAYSON, CUMMING
Apple fight puts personal data at risk
This is a call to arms. The fight between Apple and the FBI is also our fight. The consequences of creating an access point to our personal digital devices cannot be overstated. Regardless of the safeguards, our personal data would ultimately become accessible by IT college students, foreign government-sponsored hackers and organized crime alike. Law enforcement agencies have been convicting criminals for years without access to this data. Reject the false argument that they have to have access to it now.
JAKE DAVENPORT, COLLEGE PARK
