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Apple has been advertising its focus on user data security and privacy for years now. Encryption ensures data security as long as you protect your devices with a password, pin, fingerprint, or face. Nobody should be able to access the contents of your iPhone without access to your password, and that’s why the FBI tried to force Apple in early 2016 to create a backdoor into an iPhone belonging to the San Bernardino shooters.
Ultimately, the FBI backed down because it discovered it could use a third-party's services to access the password-protected iPhone. In other words, someone found a backdoor into Apple's 2016 software and was able to use it to access the contents of encrypted iPhones. Fast forward to 2018, and it looks like a similar backdoor still exists and can unlock encrypted any device, including the iPhone X.
http://bgr.com/2018/03/16/iphone-x-e...-ios-backdoor/
Ultimately, the FBI backed down because it discovered it could use a third-party's services to access the password-protected iPhone. In other words, someone found a backdoor into Apple's 2016 software and was able to use it to access the contents of encrypted iPhones. Fast forward to 2018, and it looks like a similar backdoor still exists and can unlock encrypted any device, including the iPhone X.
http://bgr.com/2018/03/16/iphone-x-e...-ios-backdoor/