The exact circumstances around the search are not known. But activist Samuel Tunick is charged with deleting data from a Google Pixel before CBP’s Tactical Terrorism Response Team could search it.
I don’t think infinite attempts is the issue, I think the timing of those attempts is what practically limit the usefulness of the attack. Here in the Apple example I imagine rebooting the phone takes longer than 30s. Also if one goes to the length of removing the battery of an iPhone to crack it, this is a pretty serious attempt. One better have proper protections in place.
I don’t think infinite attempts is the issue, I think the timing of those attempts is what practically limit the usefulness of the attack. Here in the Apple example I imagine rebooting the phone takes longer than 30s. Also if one goes to the length of removing the battery of an iPhone to crack it, this is a pretty serious attempt. One better have proper protections in place.