What Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone

Re:What Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone by sleepychu on Thursday August 04, 2016 @04:44AM (#12224272)

What about self-ransomware? "All the data on this is encrypted and there is absolutely no way to flash it without the secret key that is stored in the apple cloud."

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Re:What Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone by intoverflow2 on Thursday August 04, 2016 @09:39AM (#12225386)

It already has that with FileVault

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Re:What Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone by kaybe on Thursday August 04, 2016 @04:56AM (#12224304)

Is that technically possible when facing a sufficiently determined adversary?

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Re:What Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone by sleepychu on Thursday August 04, 2016 @08:54AM (#12225146)

I don't understand your question. Do you mean is it possible to prevent flashing of iPhones that Apple have ransomwared?

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Re:What Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone by kaybe on Thursday August 04, 2016 @02:23PM (#12227467)

Yes. Is it possible in principle to prevent flashing without bricking the device? How would one do that on a deep level? I don't think it can be done on computers, but am happy to be corrected.

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Re:What Apple should tell you when you lose your iPhone by kkarakk on Sunday August 07, 2016 @07:39AM (#12241799)

not without boobytrapping your phone by adding capacitors etc that would shortcircuit it in case flashing hardware was connected to it

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