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Re:Automated brute-force attack against the EFI PIN (2013) by mschuster91 on Sunday July 06, 2014 @02:28PM (#7995220)
Interesting why Apple did not implement a forced delay (i.e. first fail - immediate, second fail - 5sec wait, third fail 25sec, ...)
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Re:Automated brute-force attack against the EFI PIN (2013) by orvtech on Sunday July 06, 2014 @10:47PM (#7996755)
They did it for the iCloud lock which can be circumvented by automatically rebooting the Mac every X tries.
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