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So the story is about the attack which took place in San Bernardino, United States on December 2, 2015. 14 people were killed and 22 were seriously injured in the terrorist attack at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California, which consisted of a mass shooting and an attempted bombing.
The perpetrators, Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, a married couple living in the city of Redlands, targeted a San Bernardino County Department of Public Health training event and holiday party, of about 80 employees, in a rented banquet room.
After the shooting, the couple fled in a rented sport utility vehicle (SUV). Four hours later, police pursued their vehicle and killed them in a shootout. Farook was an American-born U.S. citizen of Pakistani descent, who worked as a health department employee. Malik was a Pakistani-born lawful permanent resident of the United States.
According to FBI Director James B. Comey, the FBI's investigation revealed that the perpetrators were "homegrown violent extremists" inspired by foreign terrorist groups though not directed by such groups and were not part of any terrorist network.
On February 9, 2016, the FBI announced that it was unable to unlock one of the mobile phones they recovered, a county-owned iPhone 5C used by one of the shooters, due to its advanced security features.
As a result, the FBI asked Apple Inc. to create a new version of the phone's iOS operating system that could be installed and run in the phone's random access memory to disable certain security features. Apple declined due to its policy to never undermine the security features of its products.
The government is asking the court to compel Apple to write new software that has never existed, that Apple thinks is dangerous to have exist, because it would then be subject to hackers, criminals, terrorists and theft by them and misuse by them, which threatens the security of hundreds of millions of people around the globe.
There is a school of thought which also reasons that more and more terrorists will go and buy iPhones, since they are considered to be more secured than all others.
Others are asking if Apple Inc. cannot create a 'backdoor' for just this one phone. Apple however thinks that this would create floodgates of other requests of decryption from government and that the company has helped the government with all the information within its reach.
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