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Re:A Message to Our Customers by kevinchen on Monday February 22, 2016 @05:31PM (#11154854)
Yes, if you could recover the SE key (or factory-burned SoC key for older phones), you could crack the passcode on your own cluster rather than being limited to what the phone hardware/software can do.
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Re:A Message to Our Customers by conradev on Monday February 22, 2016 @06:48PM (#11155315)
> for older phones

To my knowledge, all keys are still wrapped with the UID, and the UID is still a factory-burned SoC key (not accessible to any firmware). Possible to extract, but not easy to do at scale.

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