The FBI and Apple

I definitely think that Apple has made the right choice in choosing to fight the FBI and judge's orders in the San Bernardino case, especially after some more news that the situation could have possible been avoided.  Once again, while I'm not the most informed citizen, I think it would create a terrible precedent if Apple were to comply and create the tool that the FBI is asking for.  Personally, I would not trust that even the tool itself would only be used in this one case, or that various parts of the government would not try to continue to use their power in a similar fashion, regardless of the legality.  I generally think that people are good and try to do good, but I also don't have blind faith in the government, and wholly believe that there are plenty of less-than-legal things going in the United States' government.

Reflections on Snooping

So I honestly thought we were going to find out more about our classmates.  I was pretty surprised at how little we found, and was surprised at how difficult it was to find some things.  Of course difficult is relative, and I'm sure if you dedicated multiple hours to looking into a person you could have more luck with it, as well as more luck finding out ways to find out information on people.

I did think there was a couple of very clever things that people brought up. For instance, finding someone's hometown then specifically going to that town's website to look up public records was smart.  A friend of mine also pointed out that his personal Facebook URL gave away his online handle that he used for many things, which could've been used to find a lot of other online activity.  I had also realized that a few years ago if you had reverse image-searched one of my old Facebook profile pictures, you could have found a forum that I used to be a part of, which would have given away my online handle.  Although now the website no longer exists, it made me think about some more complicated and clever ways you could gain access to someone's information.