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I want to know what changed between 2016, when the FBI bought a tool to hack the San Bernardino shooters iPhone[1] for $900,000[2] and now — with presumably an
by docbrown 7y ago
I want to know what changed between 2016, when the FBI bought a tool to hack the San Bernardino shooters iPhone[1] for $900,000[2] and now — with presumably an up-to-date iPhone running 2019 iOS — that forced them to come to this conclusion.
1: https://www.engadget.com/2016/04/07/fbi-iphone-third-party-tool/ https://www.engadget.com/2016/04/07/fbi-iphone-third-party-t...
2: https://www.engadget.com/2017/05/08/fbi-paid-900000-to-unlock-san-bernardino-iphone/ https://www.engadget.com/2017/05/08/fbi-paid-900000-to-unloc...
- djsumdog 7y agoI didn't see a phone mentioned in the article? Is it an iPhone. Where are modern Android phones at with privacy/encryption?
- matthew-wegner 7y agoThat was an iPhone 5C, which did not have a Secure Enclave. Apparently it is/was easier to image the device to brute force passcode attempts at high speed. There are technical articles out there explaining it in more detail. On my phone now or would paste some URLs.
- ghostpepper 7y agoThe apple security whitepaper is actually a decent place to start https://www.apple.com/business/docs/site/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf https://www.apple.com/business/docs/site/iOS_Security_Guide.... There is also a blackhat talk from Ivan Krstic (one of the top security people at apple) where he goes surprisingly deep https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLGFriOKz6U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLGFriOKz6U
- kburman 7y agoIt looks like they are trying to take advantage of the situation and force apple to release a tool for fbi to break in.
- meowface 7y agoCould also be that both are true. Maybe they really can't get in and they also want to take advantage of the opportunity.