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In the world of cryptography, it is always possible, because you can always be lucky and guess the right "unlock" code. In fact, social engineering is normally
by Loic 11y ago
In the world of cryptography, it is always possible, because you can always be lucky and guess the right "unlock" code. In fact, social engineering is normally used to find the right "unlock" code[0].
The FBI can also unsolder the components in the phone, make a full image of the content, find the encrypted section and then brute-force. This is what is done for SSD. They do not power up the drive, unsolder, put the memory modules in a special reader and copy the data before the controller of the SSD automatically wipe out data because of automatic optimization after a delete/trim.
[0]: https://xkcd.com/538/ https://xkcd.com/538/
- jupp0r 11y agoIt's kind of hard to social engineer dead people, though.
- Loic 11y agoThis is why the "normally" in my sentence. But the point I really wanted to make is that you have no "impossible" with encryption.
- datashaman 11y agodead people were once alive. go through their pockets or their apartment.
- Majestic121 11y agoYou can go through each and every physical object I own or even was in contact with, but you won't find any of my passwords
- DanBC 11y agoWhat happens to all your stuff when you die?
- poooogles 11y agoWell your opinion is kind of moot at that point.
- shiven 11y agoWhy care about "stuff" once you are dead?
- Jupe 11y agoSignificant other? Kids? Relatives?
- DanBC 11y agoBecause you don't want to make a difficult situation even harder for your relatives? See, for example, the people who know they're going to die and who leave their iPads to their relatives in their wills. Apple doesn't take grants of probate as sufficient legal documents (everyone else does (eg banks)) and insist on a court order. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26448158 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26448158
- Majestic121 11y agoI guess my family will take care of my physical stuff. For the online part, some of it can probably be handled through support (facebook, etc...), and the rest will stay as is until it is deleted for lack of use. Or never deleted. Both are okay. Leaving a physical trace of my passwords is not only bad practice from security point of view, but quite useless since I know them. Also, my online accounts are useless if I can't use them because I'm dead, so I don't really care if no one can access them anymore. What happens to important things such as banking is already dealt with.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoI just got a Facebook birthday notification for my cousin, who died three years ago. So, that has some impact on me and others in our extended family. Maybe that's ok, maybe it'll get weirder at some point; but its definitely something to think about.
- fnordfnordfnord 11y agoWith a $5 dollar wrench? What's that going to get you?
- kristofferR 11y agoThe media already did that :P
- jacquesm 11y agoFrom a forensics point of view that is a very risky path. You risk destroying the evidence and you're tampering with it.