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		taopao on July 26, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: This $200 3D printed bot can crack your phone's PI... Android has exponential backoff for retries, which would foil this attack, no?

jamesaguilar on July 26, 2013 | [–]

According to the article, they give you a thirty second timeout for each five wrong attempts. That's not enough to prevent this.

dsl on July 26, 2013 | [–]

iOS has exponential backoff, Android does not.

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