A device capable of brute force unlocking any iPhone for $ 500

Getting to unlock an iPhone using an external device, hacking the terminal is not an easy task but there is an option to do it for $ 500 and some patience. I say patience because if we have to decipher a six-digit password this device can take a whole year, but in the case of 4-digit codes it can be achieved in a few days.

We also have video proof that this is real and that it is really possible to use this system to unlock any iPhone on current iOS version. Again we have to think that this is not something easy to carry out and it is required to have the iPhone connected to the machine for a while so that it is able to discover the code. 

In addition to the device itself, which we will not include in this article, you need a good dose of patience, especially if the iPhone has a six-digit unlock code. On the other hand if in addition to numbers letters are added, unlocking is practically impossible to achieve.

The brute force unlocking thing is easy to explain. This plate connected to the iPhone what it does is use all the possible combination of numbers to access the device and therefore it requires time, but This does not mean that it cannot be unlocked or that the security hole does not exist ... We leave the video of the well-known YouTube channel of EverythingApplePro so you can see how this system works:

The importance of staying up to date

Can we prevent this from happening on our iPhone? Yes. This can be avoided as long as the device is kept updated to the latest available version of iOS, in this case its own. Apple reported that the security flaw is added in iOS 11. 

The problem or security hole is that iOS 10 has no limit of attempts when you just changed the unlock password, that is, it does not block or delete data from the iPhone (after 10 unsuccessful attempts to enter the code) and therefore the device can be accessed.

However What about those users who cannot update their iPhone to iOS 11? Well, in principle adding an alphanumeric password can be one of the first barriers for this device, but simply a code of more than 4 digits -something already common in the initial configuration- may be enough.