This book is dedicated to...

myself

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On a December day, two men named Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik attacked the Inland Regional Center in San Berandino, California with guns and explosives, killing 14 innocent people before being killed themselves in a shootout with police.

There remains many questions about who the two shooters might have communicated with before the attack, and what their motives must have been. During the investigation, the FBI found an iPhone 5c that belonged to Syed Farook.

Investigators have permission from the county to search the phone. But the phone is protected by a passcode that the FBI does not know.

The FBI teamed up with a federal judge to ask Apple if they would like to cooperate with the FBI so that they could find a way they could crack the passcode that is preventing them from investigating further information about the case. But Apple declined. They made a passcode system that not even the own company can get into.

There was nothing Apple could do about unlocking the iPhone passcode. So the case was remained unsolved. Either way, the FBI was willing to pay the company a large amount of money to see if they can make a universal code for all iPhones so that if anything similar happens in the future, they could have easy access to any phone.

Apple agreed but only under one condition: the password cannot leave their authority. From then onward, every iPhone they released after that, was able to be unlocked with the universal passcode that was made.