Share LinkedIn Twitter Facebook With the software rejiggered, the FBI could launch a traditional “brute force” attack, employing a software program to rapidly try password combinations until it arrived at the correct one. Since Farook’s iPhone 5C used a four-digit passcode, a program could run through every one of the 10,000 possible password combinations in a matter of minutes. “That brute force technology isn’t very sophisticated,” says Dylan Ayrey, a security engineer with the information security company Praetorian. “You could go on Ebay right now and purchase ways to brute force older versions of the iPhone.”
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