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Re:The bumpy road towards iPhone 5c NAND mirroring by bogomipz on Friday September 16, 2016 @01:47AM (#12512096)
Can you explain how the "USB DMA exploit" works? Also how would you run this exploit on the phone if you were locked out of it?
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Re:The bumpy road towards iPhone 5c NAND mirroring by dogma1138 on Saturday September 17, 2016 @12:43AM (#12519160)
Like any other DMA exploit through the USB host or any other DMA enabled data connector/port.

Cellebrite has a few of them I know of a few for MediaTek chipsets that work through the USB host and the camera connector.

This isn't any different than the DMA "skeleton keys" for PCs and Macs that work via firewire/thunderbolt/pcie/expresscard/PCMCIA etc.

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