The battle between the US law enforcements along with the government against Apple has been seen in full force; however there are a lot harsh truths that have to be faced by all of us which can be really uncomfortable.

First we have to decide what is it that we actually value, the security of our personal data on one hand and the other hand the risk involved for the prevention of further mayhem and murder due t the fact that the law enforcement was not helped on time.

In other words, we need to ask ourselves who we should trust in regards to our safety, the FBI or the company. A judge was asked by the DOJ to force the company in helping the investigative team of the FBI to gain the necessary access of the phone that the shooter of the San Bernardino had used.

The request made initially was rejected publicly by Tim Cook, the CEO of the company. When addressing the customer’s in the form of a message, he stated that if there was a compromised made towards the security of sensitive or personal information would result in a risk towards the personal safety.

The company stated that the position it is in right now is that it cannot help the government since the company themselves cannot access the information. By creating a backdoor in this case, it can result to the fact that even cyber criminal will also have access to it. This can be a real risk for everybody.

As per the authorities, it is being said that they do not want a super key; they just want to reprogram one phone. The argument still stands on the fact that even if you create software that can pass through the auto wipe and even allowing the code to be hacked is the same thing as the so called super key creation. However on the other end, we all have to also be ready to pay for the consequences due to the fact that the authorities were not helped in time.