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Sufficiently motivated? Absolutely. But I contend there's a huge difference between something that takes technical skill to obtain versus something demonstrated on YouTube and is simple enough that my mom could make it happen.


Well, hang on, that's not fair. Your first example cited selling a device to someone vastly interested in obtaining extremely valuable data - imagine this happening to President Obama's iPhone. But now you're saying that the concern is coming from someone who can figure this out by watching a YouTube video.


They're not mutually exclusive. Now there's just an easy hack that both can use to get past the security mechanism.




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