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Re:Apple Is Said to Be Working on an iPhone Even It Can’t Hack by teacup50 on Thursday February 25, 2016 @10:28AM (#11175025)
You misunderstand; if you can't even decrypt the binary, you can't disassemble, much less run a decompiler over it.

As someone who has done quite a bit of reverse engineering work, I have no idea how I'd identify and isolate a vulnerability found by fuzzing without the ability to even look at the machine code.

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Re:Apple Is Said to Be Working on an iPhone Even It Can’t Hack by mbq on Monday February 29, 2016 @09:55AM (#11195752)
If it runs, it has to be decrypted (at a current level of cryptography); at most it is obfuscated and the access is blocked by some hardware tricks which may be costly to circumvent, but there is nothing fundamental stopping you.
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