A Message to Our Customers

Re:A Message to Our Customers by jandrese on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @10:41AM (#11118534)

If you lose the PIN on an iPhone you need to do a wipe and restore it from backup. You had better hope you remembered the backup password. You can't make a backup of a locked phone either.

The backup is probably easier to attack if you have it, since it doesn't have hardware imposed timeouts on password guesses. It may not be current however.

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Re:A Message to Our Customers by FussyZeus on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @11:17AM (#11118841)

I'm not sure the backup would be much help even if you could break into it, I believe it's encrypted with the same method used to protect the keychain and is tied to the victim's Apple ID. I attempted to help a coworker restore their device with my Mac and couldn't because my iTunes was using a different Apple ID than the device and the device's backup.

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