If Apple is Ordered to Hack One iPhone, Could Your iPhone be Next?

A judge’s order requiring Apple (AAPL) to hack into an iPhone touches on issues that range from privacy, to security, and encryption. There’s also potentially lots of money at stake in this highly charged case that stems from last year’s shooting attacks in San Bernadino, California that left 14 people dead and 22 injured. The FBI needs help in accessing data from one of the shooter’s iPhones, and asked the court to demand that Apple hack into the phone. What happens next could set a legal precedent that impacts many technology companies. ‘This is really something that could open a Pandora’s Box and that’s why I think Apple has decided to draw a line in the sand and to really fight this,’ said Jonathan Hafetz, Associate Professor of Law at Seton Hall University. Following the judge’s order, Apple CEO Tim Cook issued a statement that said building a ‘backdoor to the iPhone’ is ‘too dangerous to create.