Re:U.S. Drops California Case Against Apple After Accessing ...
by a3n on Monday March 28, 2016 @06:23PM
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I wonder what the government's obligation is to Apple, to let them know the nature of the vulnerability.
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Re:U.S. Drops California Case Against Apple After Accessing ...
by nacs on Monday March 28, 2016 @06:49PM
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I'm sure Apple already knows how they are doing it.
The tech that FBI is claiming to have cracked is the iPhone 5C which does not have the Secure Enclave hardware that all later iPhones do and which are far more of an actual challenge to crack.
Re:U.S. Drops California Case Against Apple After Accessing ...
by cmurf on Monday March 28, 2016 @06:42PM
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Legally none. Ethically? I think it's worth debating what sort of public trust should be granted to government that sits on an exploit.
But it also requires knowing how they did it. I think most likely they copied the flash, started iterating passcodes, and then reflashed the phone everytime they ran out of attempts. That's sufficiently obvious (to me anyway) that it's not much of an exploit worth documenting and also there's no software fix for such a thing. You'd need to put the passcode attempt counter on some separate piece of hardware that either can't be externally read or reflashed.
Re:U.S. Drops California Case Against Apple After Accessing ...
by GraemeLion on Monday March 28, 2016 @06:29PM
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None.