Persuasive Essay On Pandora's Box

The modern phrase "Pandora's Box" derives from a Greek myth where the first woman, Pandora, is given a beautiful box by the Greek god Zeus with specific instructions for it to never be opened. Unable to follow the rules, Pandora ends up releasing all the evils of humanity. Today, much like Christianity’s idea of biting forbidden fruit, opening Pandora’s box refers to getting into a situation over which one has very little control over. As part of the San Bernardino shootings, a federal court ordered Apple to help the Federal Bureau of Investigation or F.B.I. unlock one of the assailant’s iPhone. Apple’s chief executive, Tim Cook, replied with an emphatic letter announcing the company will not comply with the FBI. The F.B.I’s court order to

Attorney Vance Jr. argues in his article “No Smartphone Lies Beyond the Reach of a Judicial Search Warrant” that the “Decisions about who can access key evidence in criminal investigations should be made by courts and legislatures, not by Apple and Google.” Contrary to the attorney’s statement, it leaves out a question of what evidence or leads can the investigation get out of the iPhone. Intelligent criminals, upon hearing the news or after careful planning of a plot, would treat the iPhone as disposable (not for reuse). In his view, surveillance of a felon is more important than the privacy of an

He includes the valued metaphor of the Pandora’s box and researched the reliability of the government securing the Internet. He showed data that “In 2013, following disclosures that the National Security Agency had violated it own data collection rules more than 2,500 times in the course of a year, agency officials admitted that some of these incidents were personal in nature. A dozen or more cases involved NSA workers spying on their lovers and spouses.” This proves that the “security” from the other side is only unwarranted government surveillance. In the final paragraphs, Ungerleider comments, “The type of access the F.B.I. wants, though, is a Pandora’s box. Once it’s developed, hackers, organized crime or foreign intelligence agencies stand to benefit as much as a U.S. intelligence agencies and law enforcement.” Hence, there will be more consequences than any gains for the F.B.I. Additionally, Admiral Jim Starvridis and Dave Weinstein also configures how little benefit the investigation would gain in further