Once you peel the onion back on Apple’s products you always find some shortcuts.
I ran into a classic adding an SSD to a 2011 MBP.
Apple specs showed a 6mb/s interface to the HDD.
After swapping out the HDD for an SSD I received an error and researched it. Turned out the little ribbon cable was only spec’d out to 3mb/s. Just a little shortcut that cost me $50 to swap the cable out.
Hence their Proprietary internals.
Correct me if I’m wrong in my thinking, but it seems to me that I have read that Apple iPhones will ‘self destruct’ or wipe it’s memory if the incorrect password is given more than a certain number of times.
Being in electronics, but not familiar with Apple circuitry, it seems to me that if you would take the memory chips off the circuit board or disabled by lifting the power pin, to where they could not be accessed by the phone’s microprocessor and you could use a computer programmed to hack away at the password innumerable times to gain access to the data.Or you installed them into another iPhone that you could access them directly.
If the data is encrypted on the memory chips, then reading them is not a problem, only the encryption method used to ‘unscramble’ them is. If the algorithm used to encrypt the data is known, then it seems that you could unscramble the data with a computer programmed to try every possible iteration of the data until something readable comes up.
This whole mess isn’t really about ‘the data’ on a particular iPhone, but about The Government wanting Apple to provide to them a quick and easy method of decrypting the data on ANY iPhone via some method.
Or am I wrong?.............................