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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneF" data-source="post: 534605" data-attributes="member: 12496">A hardware debugger (a special computer box with keyboard and monitor, with a cable connection that clamps on top of the microprocessor chip pins, and can control it to run single step, etc), can see the code, and can defeat (bypass, jump around) the fingerprint and the timeout tries..    It still has to have the matching encryption code to decode the text, but the phone of course has it, and must access it, so I'd think the FBI with this box could manage that too?  That part I know, next part I do not know...I am making the assumption that the phone processor does this work.  But it could all be embedded in a special encryption chip, not available outside that chip?  Still seems like it should still be triggered to "go" though?  Obviously is a problem for them though.</blockquote>