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xxs on March 22, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: U.S. Says It May Not Need Apple’s Help to Unlock i...

Bricking is on the 'flash', so if you have a copy and/or install an FPGA to replace the flash. There is nothing to 'brick'

KMag on March 22, 2016 [–]

I'm also not sure if the OS would notice if you tied the flash NAND chip's write-enable pin to ground. The OS would almost certainly notice the failed writes, but might try to make a best effort at error recovery and allow you to keep trying PINs.

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