"was this not vetted by researchers [...] ?" It doesn't sound that way: The technique for overcoming these safeguards is surprisingly simple. The key is the ab

"was this not vetted by researchers [...] ?" It doesn't sound that way: The technique for overcoming these safeguards is surprisingly simple. The key is the ability to brute-force the PIN that encrypts the data. Since it’s only four digits long, there are only 10,000 possible combinations.