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iLoch
on March 8, 2016
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One of the FBI’s Major Claims in the iPhone Case I...
No, it uses an exponential back off.
albinofrenchy
on March 8, 2016
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Even after the 'delete everything' ten attempts? In any case, you can just reboot the phone, and if it does write the number of missed attempts to NAND, you were going to revert that anyway.
iLoch
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Yeah I have no doubts there are ways around it - but they would definitely all contribute to making the brute forcing process A LOT slower.
cdcarter
on March 9, 2016
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Hasn't this phone been in FBI custody for months now?
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