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The source is Apple. They can access any phone if they want to. In this case, they didn't want to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%E2%80%93FBI_encryption_d...



I don't see anything written there that says Apple has a current capability to "access any phone" which I am assuming to mean personal info like SMS message contents... just a whole lot of reasoning why they haven't had that capability in years.




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