Have Your iPhone 6 Repaired, Only To Get It Bricked By Apple (theguardian.com)

New submitter Nemosoft Unv. writes: In case you had a problem with the fingerprint sensor or some other small defect on your iPhone 6 and had it repaired by a non-official (read: cheaper) shop, you may be in for a nasty surprise: error 53. What happens is that during an OS update or re-install the software checks the internal hardware and if it detects a non-Apple component, it will display an error 53 and brick your phone. Any photos or other data held on the handset is lost – and irretrievable. Thousands of people have flocked to forums to express their dismay at this. What's more insiduous is that the error may only appear weeks or months after the repair. Incredibly, Apple says this cannot be fixed by any hard- or software update, while it is clearly their software that causes the problem in the first place. And then you thought FTDI was being nasty ...

Comments

Don't have a problem with it

[Anonymous Coward]

Paid a lot of money for my iPhone, partly because I wanted security and not be at the mercy of the carriers for updates. Could have bought a Nexus maybe, but that would be the only equivalent in the Android world. So how is Apple going to guarantee that your phone is utterly unable to be decrypted, has no keyloggers, backdoors, etc. UNLESS they prevent third-party parts from being used? Go to a cheap-ass repair shop and who knows what the hell goes in your phone. If you paid a premium for an iPhone, don't be a cheap-ass when you repair it.

Re:Context On the Issue

[MightyMartian]

Translation; You bought an Apple. You're going to pay and pay and pay, and then pay again. Welcome to our Hotel California ecosystem, you stupid hipster! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Re: Solution!

[Adriax]

I didn't know the iphone was designed so ass backwards.
Usually it's the security system that polls the sensor and compares the data to what it has recorded. But you're telling me a dumb sensor is actually delegated the task of pulling fingerprint data from encrypted storage, comparing it to its sensor data, and telling the security system to unlock?

You would have made a horrible speakeasy guard during prohibition. Asking the would be patrons if Swordfish is the password they know and opening the door if they say yes.