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[–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

I think Apple has fixed this, but they would remove the battery, hook it up to external power. When unlocking, there was a pause/dimming on the phone to show it was wrong, and the computer hacking it would kill the power before the phone wrote that there was a bogus attempt, so you got infinite attempts.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago*

    I don't think infinite attempts is the issue, I think the timing of those attempts is what practically limit the usefulness of the attack. Here in the Apple example I imagine rebooting the phone takes longer than 30s. Also if one goes to the length of removing the battery of an iPhone to crack it, this is a pretty serious attempt. One better have proper protections in place.

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