Consumers have now learned that they cannot keep the government out of an encrypted device that U.S officials had claimed was impossible to hack.
The U.S government said it was able to break into an iPhone used by a gunman in a mass shooting in California, but didn't say how. What Puzzled Apple software engineers and outside experts is how the FBI broke the digital locks on the phone without Apple's help.
A senior law enforcement official told The Associated Press that the FBI managed to defeat an Apple security feature that threatened to delete the phone's contents if the correct passcode was not entered after 10 tries.
The FBI hacked into the iPhone used by Syed Farouk, who died with his wife in a gun battle with police after they killed 14 people in December in Bernardino, USA.
Apple is yet to figure out how to restore the security of its flagship product.
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