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Tenacious iPhone user finally unlocks phone locked for almost a decade (www.gizmochina.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I had no idea waiting could be ‘tenacious’.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Sounds like all she did was toss it in a drawer for 10 years, so very tenacious of her.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, I was expecting it to be something like "0000, no. 0001, no. 0002, no... Holy crap, I got it!"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I did this with a suitcase lock once, luckily only 3 digits. The code was 587. I remembered the code at around 540.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, four digits probably wouldn't take 10 years. Eight digits, I could see depending on how fast you're allowed to try again. I was just being lazy about typing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

It would if the lockout time got longer with every failed attempt

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Exactly what I thought too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

For real. It’s an iPhone 4s, if the wait was really that bad the person could have just gotten a grey market cellebrite ufed and been done with this whole thing. They sell for like $300-$400 on eBay ffs.