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Makes you wonder why the FBI bothered with the bit about submitting PIN guesses electronically, and didn't just ask for a firmware that looped over all 10,000 PINs until it found the right one.



Perhaps the phone in question has a 6 digit PIN, so it's useful to try it non-sequentially.




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