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Re:FBI tells lawmakers it can't access Dayton gunman's phone by wool_gather on Saturday August 10, 2019 @12:26PM (#20662944)
They wouldn't be able to install the new OS over the old one without the passcode, though.
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Re:FBI tells lawmakers it can't access Dayton gunman's phone by johnnyapol on Saturday August 10, 2019 @12:50PM (#20663112)
Not sure if things are in a similar state now, but it looks like the FBI and Apple had reason to believe something like this could be done.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93Apple_encryption_d...

Although it seems like it would be a RAM-only thing

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Re:FBI tells lawmakers it can't access Dayton gunman's phone by wool_gather on Saturday August 10, 2019 @12:58PM (#20663168)
I suppose that's true, potentially they could release a new firmware or OS that would enable this in the future.
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