The ongoing battle between Apple and the FBI has reached its surface. As of last month, the FBI has repeatedly asked to have access to the iPhone of one of the shooters in the San Bernardino attack.

“As has been our longstanding policy, the FBI  will, of course, consider any tool that might be helpful to our partners. Please know that we will continue to do everything we can to help you [that is] consistent with our legal and policy constraints,” the FBI said.
The FBI has asked Apple to create a tool that could create a backdoor into the iPhone. This allows the FBI to have access to any information they need for their work.

“From the beginning, we objected to the FBI’s demand that Apple build a backdoor into the iPhone, because we believed it was wrong and would set a dangerous precedent. As a result of the government’s dismissal, neither of these occurred,” Apple said.

The FBI decided to take matters into their own hands and gain access to the iPhone without Apple’s help.

“The FBI would need to resign itself to the fact that such an exploit would only be viable for a few months if released to other departments,” indecent forensics expert Jonathan Zdziarski said.
Since the FBI has gained access to the iPhone, Apple is left to maximize its level of  security.

“Flaws of this nature have a pretty short life cycle. Most of these things do come to light,” a senior Apple engineer said.