Apple does not have the key for that phone. No one does.<p>What the FBI is asking Apple to do is write software that will turn off the &quot;wipe after 10 wrong passcodes&quot; feature of iOS, so that the passcode can be brute-forced.<p>Setting aside the government&#x27;s interest in such a tool, imagine the interest from hackers.<p>Consider that in 2011, someone hacked into RSA to steal info about their tokens, <i>just so that they could then hack in Lockheed to steal top-secet info.</i><p>Now imagine someone hacks into Apple (very possible to happen) and steals the security-defeating software code to install on other iPhones.