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Re:My Take on FBI's “Alternative” Method by tzs on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @05:41PM (#11348504)
Is it actually hard? See this discussion just a day or two ago of services in China that are doing iPhone memory upgrades for cheap [1]. This involves desoldering the NAND, copying its contents to a bigger NAND, and soldering the bigger NAND into the phone.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11331044

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Re:My Take on FBI's “Alternative” Method by ctdonath on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @11:18PM (#11350341)
Actually doing it may be easy for those familiar with the details.

Doing it with legally-provable assurance that you won't permanently screw it up, and proving chain-of-custody issues along the way, is hard.

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