[DiogenesLamp]

This is getting confusing. I thought the problem was that Apple itself is currently not able to harvest the data from this i-phone, and that the court ordered them to build a device that would be able to harvest it.

Do I have that correct?

Apparently not. It appears Apple can very well crack that phone, they just don't want to.

[CA Conservative]

No,they cannot. They would have to create a completely new tool to do that. It may be technically possible to create the tool, but don't just take the word of one blogger to accept that it can be done. But it is not as if Apple currently has the ability to crack the phone - the FBI is asking them to CREATE the ability to do so.