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Re:Apple wants the FBI to reveal how it hacked the San Berna... by crb on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @03:03AM (#11387453)
The San Bernadino phone was running iOS 9. (It's reasonable to assume that if there was a vulnerability in 8.x, Apple would want to have fixed it in 9.)
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Re:Apple wants the FBI to reveal how it hacked the San Berna... by camillomiller on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @04:47AM (#11387848)
Cellebrite is a multinational with lots of resources. I would expect they already had some solution for iOS 9 devices in the pipeline, which was not ready to be made into a public product yet. Nonetheless they were more than happy to field test it with the San Bernardino terrorist's phone. DISCLAIMER: That's my speculation, based on my own coverage of the whole Apple-FBI thing.
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Re:Apple wants the FBI to reveal how it hacked the San Berna... by LeifCarrotson on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @08:58AM (#11388886)
But the San Bernardino phone did not have the secure enclave that new iOS 9 devices have. If the vulnerability is unworkable on devices with the secure enclave, well, they've already fixed it.
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Re:Apple wants the FBI to reveal how it hacked the San Berna... by Swannie on Thursday March 31, 2016 @12:48AM (#11395054)
Is it possible to downgrade to iOS 8 without the pin?
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