A federal judge ordered Apple to comply with the FBIs request for technical assistance in the recovery of the San Bernadino gunmen’s iPhone 5C. Many have argued whether these requests from the FBI are technically feasible given the support for strong encryption on iOS devices. In iOS devices, nearly all important files are encrypted with a combination of the phone passcode and a hardware key embedded in the device at manufacture time. The FBI wants Apple to create a special version of iOS that only works on the one iPhone they have recovered.”]
Source: https://blog.trailofbits.com/2016/02/17/apple-can-comply-with-the-fbi-court-order/