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Re:Mark Zuckerberg Backs Apple in Its Refusal to Unlock iPhone by cft on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @12:00AM (#11156685)
Theoretical question: can the FBI create the modified OS without Apple, and simply command Apple to sign it with Apple's private key, so that it can be installed on this phone without entering the passcode?

Granted without the source code it would be quite difficult, but in theory, is signing the software with Apple's bootloader private key which is the same for each class of phones the only thing required?

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg Backs Apple in Its Refusal to Unlock iPhone by vectorjohn on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @12:07AM (#11156714)
Nothing, but that would be terrible. We WANT Apple to do it because they could ensure the software is device locked.
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Re:Mark Zuckerberg Backs Apple in Its Refusal to Unlock iPhone by umanwizard on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @12:08AM (#11156720)
Apple could just bindiff to figure out what changed in the FBI's version.
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Re:Mark Zuckerberg Backs Apple in Its Refusal to Unlock iPhone by vehementi on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @09:51AM (#11159178)
Yes that would be possible.

It's weird to me that the phone will accept updates while locked...

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg Backs Apple in Its Refusal to Unlock iPhone by cft on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @02:00PM (#11161352)
> It's weird to me that the phone will accept updates while locked...

I suppose this was left there to be able to reset the phones to the factory state after 10 wrong attempts to enter the code.

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