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		albinofrenchy on March 8, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: One of the FBI’s Major Claims in the iPhone Case I... Even after the 'delete everything' ten attempts? In any case, you can just reboot the phone, and if it does write the number of missed attempts to NAND, you were going to revert that anyway.

iLoch on March 8, 2016 [–]

Yeah I have no doubts there are ways around it - but they would definitely all contribute to making the brute forcing process A LOT slower.

cdcarter on March 9, 2016 | [–]

Hasn't this phone been in FBI custody for months now?

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