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John McAfee: “I'll decrypt the San Bernardino phone free of charge”

28 points by aaossa 11y ago

Nadya 11y ago
>And why do the best hackers on the planet not work for the FBI? Because the FBI will not hire anyone with a 24-inch purple mohawk, 10-gauge ear piercings, and a tattooed face who demands to smoke weed while working and won't work for less than a half-million dollars a year. But you bet your ass that the Chinese and Russians are hiring similar people with similar demands and have been for many years. It's why we are decades behind in the cyber race. Then the next photo they show is a bunch of people with short hair, except the one guy with a ponytail, no hair dyes, no piercings (that I can tell at least), and no visible tattoos. I can't help that they did that to make him look foolish. Some would argue he doesn't need the help, but I think he simply likes hyperbole to exaggerate his points. That being said - pointless offer. FBI wouldn't risk losing the data. Always a joy to see what crazy things McAfee is shouting about. He's an interesting character at the least.
- PaulHoule 11y ago
  I can't imagine there isn't some way you could smash the memory on an iPhone to disable the lockout (I mean, all you have to do is keep the counter from going down, this is just like cheating in a video game.) If you don't want to enter all the codes by hand you should be able to mess up the digitizer somehow. If you were willing to sacrifice 10 or so phones this wouldn't be hard at all, you could pay $10,000 to a few different e-lancers, one of them would succeed...
8873872782 11y ago
He'll decrypt the iPhone with social engineering?
PaulHoule 11y ago
Is that one of the homeless bums in San Francisco that is hated by lame-ass frat boys and Diane Feinstein liberals, except the latter want to sound nice about it, so they have city council meetings about why San Francisco has only one bottle redemption center?
chrisbennet 11y ago
How do you social engineer a dead guy to unlock his phone?
- rjmunro 11y ago
  Maybe you socially engineer Apple to get the iOS keys? (I don't think that will work)

28 points by aaossa 11y ago

Nadya 11y ago

>And why do the best hackers on the planet not work for the FBI? Because the FBI will not hire anyone with a 24-inch purple mohawk, 10-gauge ear piercings, and a tattooed face who demands to smoke weed while working and won't work for less than a half-million dollars a year. But you bet your ass that the Chinese and Russians are hiring similar people with similar demands and have been for many years. It's why we are decades behind in the cyber race. Then the next photo they show is a bunch of people with short hair, except the one guy with a ponytail, no hair dyes, no piercings (that I can tell at least), and no visible tattoos. I can't help that they did that to make him look foolish. Some would argue he doesn't need the help, but I think he simply likes hyperbole to exaggerate his points. That being said - pointless offer. FBI wouldn't risk losing the data. Always a joy to see what crazy things McAfee is shouting about. He's an interesting character at the least.

PaulHoule 11y ago
I can't imagine there isn't some way you could smash the memory on an iPhone to disable the lockout (I mean, all you have to do is keep the counter from going down, this is just like cheating in a video game.) If you don't want to enter all the codes by hand you should be able to mess up the digitizer somehow. If you were willing to sacrifice 10 or so phones this wouldn't be hard at all, you could pay $10,000 to a few different e-lancers, one of them would succeed...

8873872782 11y ago

He'll decrypt the iPhone with social engineering?

PaulHoule 11y ago

Is that one of the homeless bums in San Francisco that is hated by lame-ass frat boys and Diane Feinstein liberals, except the latter want to sound nice about it, so they have city council meetings about why San Francisco has only one bottle redemption center?

chrisbennet 11y ago

How do you social engineer a dead guy to unlock his phone?

rjmunro 11y ago
Maybe you socially engineer Apple to get the iOS keys? (I don't think that will work)