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That was an iPhone 5C, which did not have a Secure Enclave. Apparently it is/was easier to image the device to brute force passcode attempts at high speed.

There are technical articles out there explaining it in more detail. On my phone now or would paste some URLs.

The apple security whitepaper is actually a decent place to start https://www.apple.com/business/docs/site/iOS_Security_Guide....

There is also a blackhat talk from Ivan Krstic (one of the top security people at apple) where he goes surprisingly deep https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLGFriOKz6U

It looks like they are trying to take advantage of the situation and force apple to release a tool for fbi to break in.

Could also be that both are true. Maybe they really can't get in and they also want to take advantage of the opportunity.

I didn't see a phone mentioned in the article? Is it an iPhone. Where are modern Android phones at with privacy/encryption?