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Apple should study history

Regarding Apple refusing to give assistance to the FBI on national security information: What if an Apple phone had information on the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941?

What if an Apple phone had information on the attack by North Korea on South Korea in 1950?

What if an Apple phone had information on the Tet offensive in South Vietnam in 1968?

Or the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon?

Just a thought!

Steve Swartout, Fresno

This story was originally published March 23, 2016 at 9:59 AM with the headline "Apple should study history."

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