Ottawa Citizen: Police must return phones after 175 million passcode guesses, judge says

...The police seized the phones in October 2022 with a warrant obtained based on information about a Google account user uploading images of child pornography. The contents of the three phones were all protected by complex, alpha-numeric passcodes....

The problem, the judge was told, is that more than 44 nonillion potential passcodes exist for each phone.

To be more precise, the judge said, there are 44,012,666,865,176,569,775,543,212,890,625 potential alpha-numeric passcodes for each phone....

“The Crown is asking for an order to find a needle in a very large haystack,” [Ontario Superior Court Justice Ian Carter] said.
LOL! You'd think anyone in a cybersecurity field wouldn't need a judge to explain the futility of their quest.

Maybe they're just obsessive compulsive bit twiddlers and hoped no one would notice.