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Obviously, except the phone won't talk over USB unless it's unlocked. Unless of course you really want that data and take it apart and read the NAND directly. As always, security is not binary, you decide how much you need. If you are that concerned about your data you can enable real passwords.

I believe the file system key is stored in a special area of storage nearly inside the system-on-chip, making this even more difficult than you'd even have assumed.

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