Originally Posted by
bitterproffit
I was on a jury trial recently and the police testified about how they were trying to tap into one of the defendant’s iPhones with a six digit security code. They use a computer program that tries a different number every seven minutes. 50% of all passcodes are the obvious numbers of all one digit or sequential digits or the user’s birthdate. The other half are not and are almost impossible to break.
In this case they tried every number combination using a computer for over a year once every seven minutes and never broke in and eventually the iPhone simply bricked.
And this is why EVERYONE should have Settings - Face ID & Passcode - Erase Data set to ON. Though after the first five incorrect attempts iOS starts disabling the phone for longer and longer periods between attempts.
Originally Posted by
bitterproffit
They said the phone just gave out. It didn’t purposely brick, they think the chip just died. Apparently Apple wont hand over the data
Then they couldn't get a court order. Apple hands over user data to the government all the time; it just needs a court order. Was the prosecution's case so bad that they couldn't get an order to Apple to hand it over?