Why doesn’t Apple then just do it themselves and give the terrorist info to the FBI then and that way we will know who or if there are more terrorists here?
Best guess is the phone has already been wiped. If it does get unlocked and the information leads to prosecution then the defense can demand that Apple reveal how the information was recovered in open court. That will insure every hacker on the planet can gain access to your iPhone.
According to Apple, they were actively helping in the investigation. They’re just refusing to write a decryption program that would eliminate security on every iPhone in the world.
http://www.apple.com/customer-letter/
Because the feds don’t really care about the data. Thay want to be able to crack iphones