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The battle between Apple and law enforcement officials over unlocking a terrorist’s smart-phone is the climax of a slow turning

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问题     The battle between Apple and law enforcement officials over unlocking a terrorist’s smart-phone is the climax of a slow turning of the tables between the technology industry and the United States government.
    On the one side, you have the United States government’ s mighty legal and security apparatus fighting for data of the most sympathetic sort: the secrets buried in a dead mass murderer’s phone. The action stems from a federal court order issued on Tuesday requiring Apple to help the F.B.I. unlock an iPhone used by one of the two attackers who killed 14 people in San Bernardino, Calif, in December.
    In the other corner is the world’ s most valuable company, whose chief executive, Timothy D. Cook, has said he will appeal the court’ s order. Apple argues that it is fighting to preserve a principle that most of us who are addicted to our smartphones can defend: Weaken a single iPhone so that its contents can be viewed by the American government and you risk weakening all iPhones for any government intruder, anywhere.
    There will probably be months of legal tussling, and it is not at all clear which side will prevail in court, nor in the battle for public opinion and legislative favor.
    Yet underlying all of this is a simple dynamic: Apple, Google, Facebook and other companies hold most of the cards in this confrontation. They have our data, and their businesses depend on the global public’ s collective belief that they will do everything they can to protect that data.
    Any crack in that front could be fatal for tech companies that must operate worldwide. If Apple is forced to open up an iPhone for an American law enforcement investigation, what’ s to prevent it from doing so for a request from the Chinese or the Iranians? Once armed with a method for gaining access to iPhones, the government could ask to use it proactively, before a suspected terrorist at tack—leaving Apple in a bind as to whether to comply or risk an attack and suffer a public-relations nightmare.
    Yet it’ s worth noting that even if Apple ultimately loses this case, it has plenty of technical means to close a backdoor over time. "If they’re anywhere near worth their salt as engineers, I bet they’re rethinking their threat model as we speak," said Jonathan Zdziarski, who studies the iPhone and its vulnerabilities.
What is the United States government fighting for?
选项 A、The strong legal and security power.
B、The basic rights of the poor.
C、The data in a bad guy’ s phone.
D、The authority of the federal court.
答案C
解析 根据题干关键词定位到第二段。根据On the one side，you have the United States government’s mighty legal and security apparatus fighting for data of the most sympathetic sort：the secrets buried in a dead mass murderer’s phone．可知政府争夺的是那种最能赢得同情的数据：藏在死了的制造群体谋杀的人手机里的秘密。故C项为正确答案。A项“强大的法律和安全力量”是对本段第一句的错误理解，原文是说“拥有强大的法律和安全机器的美国政府”、B项“穷人的基本权利”和D项“联邦法院的权威”均不符合题意，故排除。
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