An order requiring Apple Inc. to produce a hackable version of their smart phone operating system evinces a lack of understanding of technology and raises serious constitutional concerns.

When one considers the digital footprints that we each create in the course of our daily lives, there may be some merit to the notion that privacy is dead. These “footprints” include our activities on the Internet, which are susceptible to being tracked by gathering data from service providers, the websites we visit and the web-based services we use.