iPad help needed

[Andrew Tarpinian]

actually after an hour it makes you wait two hours, then 4, then 6 then,
explode.


On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Peter Korsten <peter at severity-one.com>wrote:

> Op 19-3-2013 09:29, Joost Schuttelaar schreef:
>
>
>  On 19 mrt. 2013, at 08:30, Peter Korsten <peter at severity-one.com> wrote:
>>
>>  But really, I don't know if it's just me, but I can't seem to work with
>>> Apple products without something breaking spectacularly.
>>>
>> Did you use the 4-digit passcode? You can brute-force those if you want.
>> Text password? No. Do note that the passwords are used to encrypt the
>> entire filesystem, so... it's actually a really neat and secure system.
>> Just don't forget your password :)
>>
>
> Ah... but if you get it wrong too often, you have to wait for an hour. So,
> brute forcing means 10,000 hours. Suppose you can do this 16 hours a day,
> that means 17 combinations a day, which comes down to just over a year and
> seven months.
>
> So I just wiped the damn thing, and he has to start over with Super Monkey
> Ball and some other games, but at least not with Pet Shop Story (which
> would have been a bit of a disaster).
>
> But I'm certain that I had the right four digit code, but somehow the iPad
> thought differently. And since version 5 or 6 of iOS, the passcode is no
> longer stored in plain text in the backup files.
>
> - Peter
>
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