Re:Mark Zuckerberg Backs Apple in Its Refusal to Unlock iPhone
by lern_too_spel on Monday February 22, 2016 @11:21PM
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It is just as easy to do in this case. iOS 7 does not include code for extracting data from a locked device. Apple flashed a special build onto those phones to do that. Similarly, Apple is being asked to flash a special build that allows PIN brute-forcing, and if they don't want the build to leave their premises, they've been given the option of brute-forcing the PIN themselves.
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Re:Mark Zuckerberg Backs Apple in Its Refusal to Unlock iPhone
by aljones on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @12:07AM
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The order explicitly requires the cracking tool to not be written to flash.
Just as easy? Maybe if you ignore the effort to create it and secure it. I really can't believe writing secure software is being trivialized in the comments here.
Re:Mark Zuckerberg Backs Apple in Its Refusal to Unlock iPhone
by timr on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @02:42AM
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That part is exactly the same as what they've done 70-some times previously. They didn't make some FBI agent sit there and tap out 0000 through 9999...they installed a piece of software to do it quickly. The software was signed with their key so that it would install on an iPhone.
The only difference is that this time the software they install would also have to turn off the delete-after-ten-attempts thing.
(You're probably having a hard time with this because the debate sounds absoultely ridiculous when the facts are laid out plainly. Totally understandable. The technical debate is absolutely ridiculous. The legal debate is the only one that matters, but it's not technical at all.)