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Isn't this how it was done: > Apple already knows, and you can be sure the engineers already knew the mechanism that can be exploited. They hired an Israel fir
by bhouston 11y ago
Isn't this how it was done:
> Apple already knows, and you can be sure the engineers already knew the mechanism that can be exploited. They hired an Israel firm to remove the nand flash, clone it, and brute force the pin code by trying each combination until valid data was readable from the nand flash (combined with the hardware encryption key located on a second chip). It's not particularly difficult with the right tools and engineers.
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/4cj2pd/apple_wants_the_fbi_to_reveal_how_it_hacked_the/d1iqog9 https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/4cj2pd/apple_wan...
- viraptor 11y agoIt's speculation. Maybe it was, maybe not. Random reddit comment from a person unrelated to FBI is unlikely to know. Also the "combined with the hardware encryption key located on a second chip" is handwaving away a lot of complexity. That's actually the only hard part in this scenario.
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