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> setting the iPhone to shred its crypto key after 10 consecutive password failures

This seems to do decryption on its own, so this setting wouldn't have an effect. If you have the data sitting there and have the encrypted key, there's nothing stopping you from directly decrypting the key with every possible passcode and checking it for validity.



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