If what you say is true, then I agree with you.<p>Though I find it hard to believe that Apple doesn&#x27;t already keep some sort key(s) to unlock individual phones or to turn off this &quot;wipe after 10 wrong passcodes&quot; feature.<p>Facebook (and pretty much every other internet company on earth) keeps password hashes and salts in their databases - So in theory, the government could already brute force the vast majority of our personal data from these websites.<p>At least with a phone, the government has to physically get a hold of it in order to brute force the phone and read the data.