On the 2nd of December, 2016, Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik opened fire and killed 14 people and injured 22 others at a Christmas party in the city of San Bernardino, California, in an attempted terrorist attack. The FBI killed both in an encounter later and retrieved an iPhone used by Farook. How did it all start? • The FBI found the iPhone to be encrypted with a passcode, which would wipe out all data if the passcode was entered wrong more than 10 times. • The Government contacted Apple to create a software that would override this functionality, and help them to retrieve the information in the phone. • Apple CEO Tim Cook argued that doing so would be a bad idea and it would be a danger to the data of all of Apple’s customers.

So what now?

• The rift between technological companies and the Government keeps on increasing.

• The Government wants to get into and scrutinise more iPhones.

• Apple wants to know what method was used to break the encryption so that it could cover that up with added security features.

• The legal ramifications will always stay as more and more security features are added to devices which might be also used for anti-social activities.

This surely ends the matter for the one single iPhone, but the general consensus for a unified take on this matter still has a long way to go before both parties arrive to a mutually beneficial decision.