Your Phone Passcode Must Be 10-Digits or More

 

According to BoingBoing (October 21, 2020) Most police have access to tools that can retrieve cleartext data from about 50% of the phones they confiscate. Phone-hacking tools typically exploit security flaws to remove a phone's limit on passcode attempts and then enter passcodes until the phone unlocks. Because of all the possible combinations, a six-digit iPhone passcode takes on average about 11 hours to guess, while a 10-digit code takes 12.5 years. The tools mostly come from Grayshift, an Atlanta company co-founded by a former Apple engineer, and Cellebrite, an Israeli unit of Japan's Sun Corporation.

* Use a passcode that is at least 10-digits long on your iPhone / iPad.