A Message to Our Customers

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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