The FBI and Apple spent weeks yelling and screaming at each other over a cell phone, mimicking parents and teenagers everywhere. But the showdown between the government and the maker of iPhones went a lot deeper than some teen Snapchatting at the dinner table. It brought up topics like privacy rights, government overreach and the very real threat of terrorism.

联邦调查局和苹果已经因为一部手机的问题闹了好几个星期了, 简直就像父母与孩子们的争吵一般。 但是政府和 iphone 制造商之间的矛盾显然比孩子们与父母在餐桌上的争吵更深刻。由此，一些问题——诸如隐私权、政府过度影响以及恐怖主义的真实威胁等话题，都浮出水面。

In the end — or at least the end of this chapter — the FBI won, cracking the iPhone (with the help of some real hackers) belonging to one of the shooters in the San Bernardino terrorist attack and gaining access to its data.

在此回合中，美国联邦调查局(FBI)赢得了胜利, 他们成功地破解了 iPhone (在一些黑客的帮助下) , 并获取了其数据。

The successful break-in brought up even more questions. Who was right? What did the G-men find on the phone? What are they going to do with it? Will they share their break-in methods with anyone else? What's Apple's next move?

这次成功的非法闯入引发了更多的问题。 谁才是对的?他们在电话里发现了什么? 他们又要用它做什么? 他们会和其他人分享他们的黑入方式吗? 苹果的下一步行动是什么，准备如何应对?

The most pressing question, though, might be this: How the heck did they do it?

但最紧迫的问题莫过于: FBI到底是怎么做到的?

"Technically ...," says Robert Siciliano, an identity theft expert with BestIDTheftCompanys.com and an expert on mobile phone security, "I don't know. More than likely, we will know. Eventually. And that's the problem. That's the issue that Apple has had with this whole process."

Best id theft companys网站的身份盗窃专家、移动电话安全专家罗伯特·西西里亚诺(Robert Siciliano)表示,"我目前并不清楚，虽然我们最终可能还是会知道。这也就是苹果在本次事件中遇到的问题。"

An NBC News report says that an Israeli firm called Cellebrite helped crack the phone for the FBI. And even though its methodology is still secret, the secret is now out: It can be done. And sooner or later, as Siciliano suggests, the word on how to do it will leak out. The FBI already has said it'll help other law enforcement agencies with locked phones.

美国全国广播公司新闻报道说, 一家名叫 Cellebrite 的以色列公司在此次帮助了联邦调查局的破解工作。 即使它的方法仍是个秘密, 但我们现在都知道了: iPhone可以被破解，也已经被破解了。 就像西西里亚诺所认为的那样, 这迟早会泄露出去。联邦调查局已经表示, 它将帮助其他执法机构破解被锁定的手机。

None of this should be particularly surprising. It's a way of life in the tech world. Engineers build. Hackers break in.

其实也没什么好大惊小怪的，这就是科技界的常态：有人筑墙，就会有人攻破。

It's just that, usually, it's not the government trying to bust in or demanding someone else open it.

只是通常情况下，政府都不会参与其中，也不会要求别人来帮着做类似的事儿。

"With every technology, whether it's Microsoft, Android, Apple's iPhone — heck it could be your car, it's your friggin' toaster, your refrigerator,” Siciliano says, "with every technology, there's a way to game it. There's always a way to game it."

"每一项技术, 无论是微软、安卓、苹果的 iPhone, 甚至是你的汽车、你的烤面包机、你的冰箱,"西西里亚诺说,"都有自己的生存之道。总有一种方法可以攻克它。"

And that, of course, may be the moral to this whole 21st-century fable: No matter how secure you think your phone is — or your computer, or your tablet, or your autonomous car — some bad guy somewhere will be looking for a way to make it unsecure.

然，这也是对于21世纪的一次道德挑战：不管你认为你的手机、你的电脑、你的平板、甚至是你的自行车有多安全——总有一些坏人会想办法让它变得不那么安全。

"The chase is always on,” Siciliano says. “It's never NOT been on."

"科技总在进步，追逐从未停止。"西西里亚诺说。