> Why do they go through all the trouble with their encryption when they leave themselves a backdoor. I am no means an expert on this, so someone else please c

> Why do they go through all the trouble with their encryption when they leave themselves a backdoor. I am no means an expert on this, so someone else please correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to remember reading that it's not so much a backdoor as much as there are only 9999 possible 4-digit passcodes (and most people only use 4-digit passcodes). The iPhone hardware rate-limits attempts to prevent you from brute-forcing it, but Apple can reflash the firmware to get around this, thus allowing them to be able to bruteforce the PIN. Whether this counts as a "backdoor" or not, I'm not sure. If that is true, then I imagine there'd be nothing they could do if you used a longer (random) password instead of a simple PIN.