and ... one more.
Not even Apple can hack this, unless they have a backdoor to the cypto chip. Just altering the software won’t allow unlimited PIN entry, and I can state that as fact because it’s what I’ve been trying. It’s the hardware which blocks you.
I've been trying to tell the "fools" this for several weeks now. If they study the theory behind this, they'd see it. But some of them even refuse to read the articles on how it works, preferring to stay arrogantly assured of their superiority in their ignorance, claiming that anything published contrary to their opinion had to be paid propaganda from Apple.