[A CA Guy]

So obviously the thing to do would be to break open the phone and secure the solid state chip.
Then maybe somehow bypass the startup sequence for the chip and go directly to read?

That’s what I would do. Or try to do as my last resort.

[Swordmaker]

So obviously the thing to do would be to break open the phone and secure the solid state chip.
Then maybe somehow bypass the startup sequence for the chip and go directly to read?

That’s what I would do. Or try to do as my last resort.

Nope. won't work. The iPhone uses three things to encrypt the data. All of them have to be present to decipher the data, and all of them are on the iPhone in separate places. . . and without all three, you are not going to get in. Also, the input passcode HAS to be input by the touchscreen. Also, if you bypass the startup sequence, which is called the SECURE BOOT SEQUENCE, it forces the iPhone into a special mode which requires the iPhone to be reset to FACTORY CLEAR STATE, and erased. It can only be re-set with the owner's AppleID, then restored from an iTunes data backup. OOPS.

[Swordmaker]

Then maybe somehow bypass the startup sequence for the chip and go directly to read?

Incidentally, assuming you were able to go directly to read the data, all you'd get to see would be gobble-de-gook. The data is encrypted to 256 bit AES standard encryption. Unless you go all the way through the log in process which re-builds the decryption key, the data will not be deciphered to be readable. It would take years, literally trillions of years, to find the right key, to decipher it. Actually more than trillions. Something like 5.62 undecillion years. That's 5.62 X 10¹⁹⁵ years. . . Using the fastest supercomputer we have available today.