If the FBI gets into the "terrorist's" iPhone, they'll get into yours

[True Earthling]

37. The risk of attack is low not because terrorists aren't trying...

It's low because of gov't efforts to screen people coming in to the U.S. and gov't efforts to gather information that might uncover plots.

For every successful attack there are probably hundreds of attacks that have been prevented. So far we have not had another 9-11 but there are tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of radical Muslims that would love to duplicate 9-11 or do something a lot bigger. Maybe the odds are small that 9-11 could happen again but it would be foolish to believe there isn't a big attack being planned somewhere...right now.

I'm not worried about me personally being a victim of a terrorist attack and I think most people arguing for security feel the same way... so throwing out statistics showing how small the threat is misses the point. It's not about my personal safety.. it's about that rogue attack that comes out of nowhere.. like a San Bernadino, like Paris.

Apple is not giving the FBI a back door. What the FBI is requesting, a criminal would need the physical phone AND a copy of the software to crack a phone. The big worry is hacking online activity. If an iPhone is stolen it can be located with "find my iPhone" or it can be "wiped" remotely as well. The only reason it didn't happen here was the owner died! My daughter had her iPhone stolen last month and within 5 minutes we located the phone in the thief's apartment.

You say everything in life is a risk. It's seems like a lot of DU'ers have no tolerance for risk when it comes to privacy. I get the feeling that even if Apple could provide the data with ZERO RISK that a hacker could duplicate the process.. people here would still not want to see that... If the real concern is protecting privacy and personal info.. that make no sense. It would only make sense if one is anti-gov't or anti LE.