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veen · 2988 days ago · link · · parent · post: Apple CEO Tim Cook: "They have asked us to build a backdoor to the iPhone."
The gist of it is in this part: The backdoor here isn't Apple giving the NSA the passwords - it's allowing them to hook input up to a brute force system and allow unlimited tries. They still might not guess the password though.The government would have us remove security features and add new capabilities to the operating system, allowing a passcode to be input electronically. This would make it easier to unlock an iPhone by “brute force,” trying thousands or millions of combinations with the speed of a modern computer.