Might criminals, paranoids and privacy extremists wishing for their phones never to be cracked, just choose an 11 digit passcode? I hear this would take too long for a computer to crack.<p>Everyone else can choose a 4 digit code, and still enjoy very good security up until the point they are wanted by the FBI.<p>People are confusing the fight for unbreakable encryption with this new fight to keep manufacturer-specific passcode retry attempts nice and secure.<p>The very fact we have this dependency between the encryption and the retry system, is a weakness probably deserving of attention.