02-18-2016, 02:17 PM
(02-18-2016, 12:44 PM)GMDino Wrote: That was the impression I was getting from the news reports yesterday on the radio. Local police would like the precedent also.
This is the biggest issue. It isn't about one phone, it is about the hundreds of requests they will start getting each year to do this across the country. The fear if one of these phones with the changes to assist police get out, hackers could use that to break into other phones. As phones inch closer and closer to being more valuable the licenses and credit cards, mainly because it is both in one location, we don't want to start softening the security on these devices.
Fun fact....
If they remove the wiping function from the phones iOS as well as the time lock that gets longer with each additional wrong answer in theory you could enter a password every 80 milliseconds or 750 passwords a minute. If the guy was using a 4 number pin it is only 10000 combinations which could be cracked in under 14 minutes, assuming it's one of the last once tested. If he used the new 6 pin standard it would be 1 million combinations which would take up to 22 hours, assuming it was one of the last ones tested. If he used the complex password function (goes up to 36 numbers) and picked 12 number it would be 1 Trillion combinations which could take up to 2,536 YEARS.
Moral of the story use longer pins and no one will have the time to break into your stuff anyways. Keep in mind though that it's because an apple hardware limitation that limits the amount of guesses you can process (1 every 80ms). Normal computer passwords or even other system passwords can be hooked up to super computers that can do this much much faster.
