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The FBI vs. Apple: What’s All the Hubbub?

Apples concern and the concern of many other technologists and privacy experts is that once the software is created, the government could reuse it at will.

By John San Filippo | Updated on February 24, 2016

On Dec. 2 of last year, 14 people were killed and 22 were seriously injured in a terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California, carried out by Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik. As one might expect, in the ensuing weeks, the FBI has been gathering as much evidence about the case as possible. One piece of recovered evidence is an iPhone issued to Farook by his employer, the San Bernardino County Department of Public Health.

The health department authorized the FBI to access any data contained on the phone, but there’s a problem. All the data on the phone — on all iPhones, for that matter — are encrypted so that even Apple can’t decrypt them. To access the data, one needs to know the phone’s passcode.

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