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Engineers at Apple are said to be developing new security measures that will make it absolutely impossible for the government to break into an iPhone that is locked. In a case of recent events, a court fight has ensued between Apple and the government to gain backdoor entry into locked iPhone of a San Bernardino terrorist who killed 14 people in a terrorist attack last year, according to USA Today

If the security on Apple is upgraded, and experts imagine that it will, the company will pose an even greater challenge for law enforcement agencies, even if they win the fight over the data stored on an iPhone device of San Bernardino killers. If FBI ever wants to access the information inside a locked iPhone, they would have to find other ways to do so, says Economic Times

While the traditional phone carriers are forced by law to make the data accessible to the government, companies like Google and Apple are immune from these laws. The two tech giants are resisting such legislations that will impose such requirements on them as well. "We are in for an arms race unless and until Congress decides to clarify who has what obligations in situations like this," said Benjamin Wittes, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

Companies are always working to patch the security holes to keep their codes secure from hackers. However, after the revelations made by Edward J. Snowden about the government surveillance, companies are reworking on their product safety to protect the users from government invasion, as reported by New York Times

"For all of those people who want to have a voice but they're afraid, we are standing up, and we are standing up for our customers because protecting them we view as our job," Apple's chief executive, Timothy D. Cook, said on Wednesday in an interview with ABC News.