That's a lot of double-speak. They know that removing the timeout so they can try thousands of passwords per second opens up a huge security hole. What he's saying is "we want it both ways". We don't want to take away security for users, we just want to make it easier for someone who's not the owner of the phone to get into it.

So if someone the FBI is interested in knew they were being targeted and used a strong, complex, long password which would be impossible to 'guess' even without the restrictions then how does

> and without it taking a decade to guess correctly.

even make sense when there isn't a force in the universe that can guess that password in 10 millennia.

If they demand that restrictions like gated attempts and automatic wipes be removed, they're just pushing the industry to move to restrictions that can't be removed.

Hell, if I was feeling really cheeky and worked for Apple, I would give the FBI their backdoor which allowed them access, but they have to provide the phone a proof of work worth at least $10 trillion.

No this probably couldn't be made secure.

The only way to accomplish the goal in the first paragraph is to execute the steps they "don't want to" do from the second paragraph. It's more than double-speak, it's pure bullshit.