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mschuster91 on July 6, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Automated brute-force attack against the EFI PIN (...

Interesting why Apple did not implement a forced delay (i.e. first fail - immediate, second fail - 5sec wait, third fail 25sec, ...)

OrangeCommit77 on July 7, 2014 [–]

They did it for the iCloud lock which can be circumvented by automatically rebooting the Mac every X tries.

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