Fact: On December 2, 2015, 14 people were killed and 22 injured due to a terrorist attack that
consisted of mass shootings in San Bernardino, CA. Although, the shooters died a few hours
later in a police shootout, among the many recovered objects, the FBI found an iPhone5C. It
belonged to Syed Rizwan Farook, who with his wife, Tashfeen Malik, opened fire at the Inland
Regional Center. In the attempt to further investigate the case, the FBI ordered Apple to assist
them in unlocking the device. On that note, the FBI did not ask Apple to break the phone’s
encryption but rather disable the feature that wipes off the data on the phone after 10 incorrect
tries at entering the password. In response, Apple stated that it is cannot unlock the iPhone for
law enforcement, even if the officer had a warrant, because their phone is engineered in a way
that only the user, or someone with the password can unlock it. Though Apple has complied with
