Today on the news it was pointed out that the phone can be set to erase itself after three botched tries at the password. Are we back to the issue of whether erased flash memory can be recovered or not?
The option in iOS is to erase after ten (10) failed attempts, not three (3). The default setting is ON. If the report you read is so poorly researched that it missed something that basic I would take the rest with a lot more than a grain of salt.
I'm still not completely getting it. I thought that if you could prove you were the owner of the phone and did not set it to erase Apple could already get into it for you, just like if you lost your password for an iPad.
Apple had been working with the FBI to use the only available recovery method which relies on iCloud backups but when the FBI or some other law enforcement
expert switched iCloud accounts for the phone that recovery method went by the boards and cannot be recreated. The iPhone 5 and 6 along with iOS 9 are by design far more secure than previous ones.
If you believe what you see on the crime dramas on television when they blithely break into smart phones with a soldering gun and paperclip, I have a wonderful real estate investment you might be interested in. Its called the Brooklyn Bridge and you can get it for a song.
