Here's a device that can break into an iPhone in just a few hours

Mumbai: Recently, Apple was in news for an encryption battle against the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), to unlock an iPhone 5C used by a San Bernardino attacker. While Apple had refused to unlock the smartphone saying that, although it could create a software to break into the iPhone, it thought it was a bad idea, as the software could be stolen by hackers and used against other iPhones.

FBI, however, was adamant on unlocking the smartphone, of course for getting to the roots of the case, and after four months of persistent efforts, they were finally successful at unlocking the iPhone in question.

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As most of all would know, the reason why unlocking the iPhone is such a big deal is because of the ‘auto-wipe’ feature in the smartphone, which activates after anyone fails more than 10 times (consecutively) at guessing the iPhone’s passcode.

Now, a British retailer called Fone Fun Shop claims that he has a device that can unlock an iPhone running on iOS 7, within just a few hours. Essentially, the device manages to bypass the auto-locking system when attempting wrong passcodes and then it follows a brute force cracking strategy by trying all possible passcode combinations.

This device that costs just about $170 (Rs 12,000 approx), takes approximately 6 seconds to check every single combination, with the total time reaching to just about some 16 – 17 hours. However, if the device cracks the combination in the first few attempts it wouldn’t event take that long.

Although the current IP Box works only on a device running on iOS 7, the retailer claims that version compatible with iOS 9 is already in works and will soon be out on shelves.

Watch the video below to see how the IP Box works: