A Message to Our Customers

Re:A Message to Our Customers by GreaterFool on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @04:42AM (#11116599)

Thanks. This explains it. I was just thinking about my old Thinkpad X41. That had TPM module and hardware encryption. There's nothing that IBM or the TPM manufacturer could've done to decrypt it (unless the TPM module already had backdoors, haha). Latest iPhones are basically the same?

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Re:A Message to Our Customers by ocean3 on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @06:48AM (#11117175)

I don't get it. How would they be load the backdoor is the phone is still locked?

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Re:A Message to Our Customers by xgbi on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @07:09AM (#11117260)

iTunes recovery mode? It allows to restore the OS, but also gives you other means to manipulate the device. Imagine if they simply hot-patch the lockscreen to allow any number of tries of password?

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Re:A Message to Our Customers by Karunamon on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @11:52AM (#11119167)

Recovery mode with DFU and the like results in a device wipe.

There are many ways to redo the firmware, but every single one of them, by design, requires wiping the phone to implement.

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Re:A Message to Our Customers by sah2ed on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @12:49PM (#11119670)

The outcome of entering DFU mode for most of us is a device wipe but this doesn't have to be the case for Apple.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11115945

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Re:A Message to Our Customers by astrange on Thursday February 18, 2016 @03:50PM (#11129208)

You can reinstall a phone from recovery mode without erasing it.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201263

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