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Shit, just Greykey the judge's iPhone and let her unlock it for you. Considering the incompetence we see on a national stage with the FCC, I doubt she would eve

• mschuster91 3y ago
  How do these things work anyway? I get it that for older phones that used just passcodes, a bug in the retry time limit verification (or its bypass with glitching) is enough, but on modern phones the combination with a decent passphrase should be impossible to bypass.
  • smoldesu 3y ago
    It's not entirely clear. Originally I believe it was only a couple features; a bruteforce for the PIN/auth and some kind of social engineering process that tricked the user into unlocking their phone. Only a few details have really leaked about it: https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/06/22/iphone-hacking-tool-graykey-techniques-outlined-in-leaked-instructions https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/06/22/iphone-hacking-to... At the end of the day, it's really just a little grey computer with a serial cable attached. You could update it with any exploits you want, and I can only guess what they're using nowadays.
    • mcpackieh 3y ago
      > and some kind of social engineering process that tricked the user into unlocking their phone I wonder if it could be as simple as letting somebody have "their phone", which actually isn't their phone but has been set up to look like it, then recording whatever pin they enter.
      • smoldesu 3y ago
        It's some sort of Three Stooges bullshit like that, from what I remember hearing. It seems more advanced nowadays though, and it's always hard to tell what's being sold under-the-table to defense contractors like that.