> Opening the iPhone REQUIRES the input of the user’s passcode to DECRYPT the ENCRYPTED data stored on the FLASH SSD. Simply re-installing iOS on the iPhone does not somehow MAGICALLY bypass the requirement for the USER’S PASSCODE to DECRYPT that data
An os update can modify the passcode retry limitation. This is one of the functions the court has ordered Apple to accomplish. Accomplishing the second function, electronic submission of passcodes, will allow access to the data.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3403402/posts?page=355#355
YOU do not even know how that worked. It did NOT modify the passcode retry limitations at all. SHEESH! Boy, do you jump to conclusions about things you do not have a clue about. All that did was interrupt the process before it set the countdown by forcing a COLD RESTART which erases all ephemeral data. You then start over. You have to do it every single passcode try. . . and you have to time it just right, before the countdown timer is written to the EPROM in either the Encryption Engine or the Secure Element. That doesn't get erased in a reset.
The passcode retry limitation did not get changed. Apple just fixed the Forced shutdown to wait until the countdown was set before continuing the shutdown. Problem solved. The countdown now continues from what ever try it was on when a forced shutdown is initiated. NOTHING was modified about the count, because nothing COULD be modified about the count. YOU just assumed the count was modified, not something else.
What this does demonstrate is that changing one thing you and DiogenesLamp may think are "just one line of code", effects other subsystems that may not be foreseen.
You are one closed minded asshat. I posted a detailed description of how the system worked on both the Encryption Engine and Secure Element processor worked and you though up a totally non-responsive BS answer. You are don't want answers. You are a a waste of bandwidth and air.