It takes mere minutes for us to crack the 4- digit passcode on the iPhone 4 (which I only specify as that&#x27;s where we were last able to easily do this in the jailbreak community; it might be faster now), and most people likely don&#x27;t use terribly strong passwords; the FBI might also have &quot;leads&quot; on what the password is, but not good enough ones that they feel confident dealing with ten attempts. This is a backdoor to the lock: you can quibble with me over the definition of &quot;unfettered&quot; (I do not consider &quot;it will take some time, but I absolutely have a 100% chance of getting access without fail&quot; terribly &quot;fettered&quot;, but it definitely is more than the people who are frustrated with this situation seem to want the FBI to have).<p>&gt; FBI demands from Apple to change their product (iOS) to make the encryption cracking attempts by FBI easier.<p>... and we should be thankful the FBI didn&#x27;t simply demand the 4096-bit key Apple uses to sign firmwares, because that&#x27;s all they actually need--nothing more than 512 bytes of data--in order to accomplish the thing everyone is upset about here.