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FBI Should Try To Unlock iPhone Without Apple's Help, Lawmaker Says (csoonline.com)
itwbennett writes: Representative Darrell Issa, a California Republican and former car-alarm entrepreneur, has suggested that the FBI try unlocking mass shooter Syed Rizwan Farook by copying the hard drive and running password attempts until they find the correct password. Bruce Sewell, Apple's senior vice president and general counsel, said during a congressional hearing that, although the company doesn't know the condition of the shooter's iPhone, Issa's approach may work.
Have you even read the summary? How would the iPhone do that if they make binary image of the storage? Can it magically format other storage devices as well?
Darrell Issa is an idiot, an asshole, a partisan hack, and a bought (through donations) turd.
No, not on the iPhone 5C it isn't.
The 'Secure Enclave' is 5S, 6, 6+, 6S, and 6S+.
Slashdot still doesnâ(TM)t support Unicode after it was added to the HTML standard in 1997.
This is incorrect. The phone does not store the key anywhere. The key is made up of the phones unique identifier value, and your pin, combined to make the key. What they can do is use acid, high powered visual equipment and lasers to try to determine the unique identifier from the iPhones CPU, and then try to brute force that with various pin numbers.
I came, I conquered, I coredumped
The iPhone's flash drive is encrypted. The key is securely stored. If you guess the lock code incorrectly 10 times then it's not the hard drive that's erased, it's the key that is irrevocably destroyed. At that point it doesn't matter if you have a bunch of copies of the disk, you have a bunch of garbage and the only key in the universe was just wiped out.
Low UIDs aren't that uncommon. There are 899 three digit UIDs. That would be a pantheon dwarfing even the Greek gods of old.
I read the internet for the articles.
I could have had a 4-digit id, but I come from an era when long-term lurking before posting was considered virtuous.
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