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Cops Can Crack an iPhone In Under Two Minutes

Posted by Soulskill on from the can-i-see-that-for-a-minute dept.

Sparrowvsrevolution writes "Micro Systemation, a Stockholm-based company, has released a video showing that its software can easily bypass the iPhone's four-digit passcode in a matter of seconds. It can also crack Android phones, and is designed to dump the devices' data to a PC for easy browsing, including messages, GPS locations, web history, calls, contacts and keystroke logs. The company's director of marketing says it uses an undisclosed vulnerability in the devices it targets to run a program on the phone that brute-forces its passcode. He says the company's business is 'booming' and that it's sold the devices to law enforcement and military customers in 60 countries. He says Micro Systemation's biggest customer is the U.S. military."

3 of 375 comments (clear)

  1. Wasted taxpayer money by deathtopaulw · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What happens when these vulnerabilities are fixed and the kits become useless? I assume our overlords will have to pay for a new version.

  2. Undisclosed? by ichthus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If the manufacturers (Apple and Google) were truly interested in patching these "undisclosed" vulnerabilities, they could purchase this software and run it on test/dev devices to see how it's done.

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  3. DMCA? by v1 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    isn't this a violation of the (grossly over-broad) DMCA, in "bypassing a protective measure"?

    I mean, technically, aren't they hacking it and selling an exploit?

    It would be refreshin to see that law used to protect some of the public for once.

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