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How to Decode a Password on an iPhone

A longer passcode or an alphanumeric passcode would help too because those are certainly harder something you type on the keyboard is sort of hard to glean. There's talk of what if you know can you use a camera to record the person doing it and then zoom in and see it and do it in slow motion in a bar scenario where the crooks hopefully don't own the bar. Although as you type on an iPhone keyboard every letter you press pops up the letter you hit yeah that's not great I think a camera would be tough right like it's not like you're going to get in there and place a camera in the bar.

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