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Re:Apple – Privacy – Government Information Requests by matt-attack on Thursday September 18, 2014 @04:38AM (#8334271)
> even with a 5 digit pin, it's entirely possible to simply try all combinations

Given a long time. Don't forget iOS slows your brute-force attempts down substantially. I'd be curious how long a brute-force attack would take given the current behavior of the OS.

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Re:Apple – Privacy – Government Information Requests by kissickas on Thursday September 18, 2014 @06:36AM (#8334537)
Is there no way to duplicate the whole filesystem onto a computer and try decrypting that? I didn't think they would actually be thumbing in every password combination...
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Re:Apple – Privacy – Government Information Requests by shalmanese on Thursday September 18, 2014 @08:27AM (#8334815)
There is supposedly no way of duplicating the secure element which is what controls the encryption.
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