There are ways the FBI can crack the iPhone PIN without Apple doing it for them

Ars Technica
By Peter BrightMar 9, 2016, 2:05 pm917 pts
Not that kind of crack. (credit: Geoff Parsons) The custom firmware that the FBI would like Apple to produce in order to unlock the San Bernardino iPhone would be the most straightforward way of accessing the device, allowing the federal agency to rapidly attempt PIN codes until it found the one that unlocked…

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