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alright guys check this out this is our first 360 video experience inside of our studio I'm gonna do a little bit of the Apple buy just to kind of get you an idea of what you see around I'm all by myself well except for our friends up in the speaker so we can give this shot a shot and we'll see how far I go okay okay alright are we good yes okay here we go in three two what's up Brian Tong here back from vacation and back for your weekly dose of the Apple bite now first I would like to thank no shirt August for you know holding down the fort last week although newcomers to the show probably thought I was on acid which I was not so let's get to the Apple versus the FBI situation it's big and gets more complicated by the week it all started with the FBI's court order for Apple to build a backdoor into iOS so they could gain access to data that was locked on the iPhone from one of the now-deceased San Bernardino terrorists they basically want their own FBI OS clever huh now Apple said no Tim Cook said it would be a major setback to online privacy and a dangerous precedent I'm onboard with Tim and Apple and the tech world like Google Twitter and Facebook agrees so how did this come about it's been confirmed by BuzzFeed that government officials actually reset the iCloud account password to the terrorists phone once it was in their possession Apple said this prevented an auto backup on iCloud that could have potentially given them more information but of course it doesn't stop there in addition to the San Bernardino phone The Wall Street Journal reports the Justice Department is pursuing court orders to make Apple help them attract data from about 12 other phones so where are we as of now the deadline for Apple to respond to the court order will be Friday February the 26th and Apple is expected to argue that its fight with the FBI should be settled by Congress it's Apple versus the FBI national security versus user privacy on the surface but really it has far more reaching implications that could go as far as weakening data encryption overall which makes this a fascinating and important case so check this out everyone watching if you guys want your voice to be heard this is a great discussion that we can have back and forth look this an email to the alpha-beta cnet.com or tweet me responses if you can figure it out in 140 characters and I will hook you up with an apple white sticker who doesn't want that alright I guess you'd have to watch the rest of the show to see what we talked about please