Apple Says Sorry For iPhone Error 53 and Issues IOS 9.2.1 Update To Fix It (betanews.com)

Mark Wilson writes: Apple has a lot of support at the moment for its stance on encryption and refusing the FBI access to an iPhone's contents, but it's only a couple of weeks since the company was seen in a less favorable light. There was quite a backlash when users found that installing an update to iOS resulted in Error 53 and a bricked iPhone. Apple initially said that Error 53 was caused 'for security reasons' following speculation that it was a bid to stop people from using third party repair shops. iFixit suggested that the problem was a result of a failure of parts to correctly sync, and Apple has been rounding criticized for failing to come up with a fix. Today the company has issued an apology, along with an update that ensures Error 53 won't happen again. But there's more good news ... If you were talked into paying for an out of warranty replacement as a result of Error 53, you could be in line to get your money back.

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Re:It's a trap!

[BitZtream]

No, just introducing another security flaw in general thanks to the mass number of ignorant people who think this is a good idea..

Now what will happen is you'll use a insecure sensor, apple will still allow the phone to boot, and a bunch of dumbasses will go ahead and use the phone with a compromised sensor ... and then when China laughs at Cisco for trying to secure their source code, people will yell at Apple because some douche booted his phone with a compromised sensor ... and continued to put his thumb on it again and again so it could be scanned again and again and silently send its data off to the 'janitor' walking around with the listening device, and then that leads to another method of exploit the phone they're about to steal.

The phone shouldn't boot, it should be entirely unusable so no one ignores the warning and tries to use it anyway.

Then, best story of all ... it'll once again by Apples fault that they didn't disable the sensor completely.

The other great part about this is ... its because people are cheaping out on a repair for a $650+ device. People are idiots. Buy a cheap repair, you deserve your phone bricked for stupidity.