[Year 12 SofDev] Apple asked to hack into iPhone

[Laurie Savage]

The real problem is the Phone will "brick" after 10 failed attempts to
crack it and the FBI wants to try brute force; fair enough, 10000 attempts
(worst case) doesn't take long nowadays.

Laurie

Laurie Savage
https://sites.google.com/a/pvgc.vic.edu.au/mr-savage/home

On 18 February 2016 at 08:32, Croke, Daryl D <
croke.daryl.d at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:

> Hi all
>
> This seems like an interesting story for Soft Dev, Maths and Computing
>
>
> https://theintercept.com/2016/02/17/apple-slams-order-to-hack-a-killers-iphone-inflaming-encryption-debate/
>
> Math task:
> Work out all possible combinations of a 4 digit password?
> Create an algorithm to crack the password.
>
> Coding:
> Create pseudo code/actual code to crack a 4 digit password?
>
> ps. Has anyone created simple code in python to do this?
>
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Daryl Croke
>
>
> Mount Ridley College
> 8338 3600
> http://mountridleycollege.vic.edu.au/
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