Yes, it can, and I explained exactly how in the original post. It's true I got some of the technical details wrong, but the substance of the post was and is correct.
One of the technical details is that disjunctive claims are true if any of their constituent elements are true. My claim was of the form, "The iPhone is vulnerable to attack. Here is one attack. If that doesn't work, here's a second attack." The first attack doesn't work, but the second one does. Hence the overall claim -- that the iPhone is vulnerable -- was (and remains) correct.
So should you be flagged to death because you got this wrong?
" they could use a copy of the chip to try five different PIN codes, and then replace the chip with a fresh copy of the original and try five more. Lather, rinse, repeat. At worst this would take about a week or so."
>> Yes, it can, and I explained exactly how in the original post. It's true I got some of the technical details wrong, but the substance of the post was and is correct
No you were wrong. You claimed that if the FBI was competent they could retrieve the key from the flash. There were no technical details discussed at all. (you could trivially google this issue and find out what you suggested doesn't work)
The ACLU is describing an attack on the PIN not the key. You acknowledge this in another comment on this thread so I have no idea why you are claiming here that the FBI can get past the encryption in any way; which as others have said doesn't work.
Yes, it can, and I explained exactly how in the original post. It's true I got some of the technical details wrong, but the substance of the post was and is correct.