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Termyn8or -> RE: “APPLE TO JUDGE: DROP DEAD!” (3/30/2016 11:21:15 PM)
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"The FBI may be forced to reveal to Apple exactly how they were able to bypass the auto-erase feature of the iPhone 5c. "
MWAHAHAHAHA
But to the tech minded it is not that much of a mystery. Just don't use the Apple OS. If you can access the raw, encrypted data you can do it with brute force. They might have even had to unsolder a chip from the circuit board.
They DO have access to patent files which would describe the architecture of the device. The only way this could be prevented is to have the NVM built right into the processor, and unless that is implemented just right, might not work either.
I thought these things had SIMs, little memory chips like a thumbdrive but smaller. I rememebr dumping a phone in a toilet and wrecking it and was able to just throw my SIM into a new twenty buck phone and had my number and whatever else. Apparently in those phones the NVRAM is soldered to the board. Otherwise there would have been so little problem even the government would not have went to all this trouble.
But really, reverse engineering is harder than it used to be, but with our money they can do it. They got the patent files, they can get the specification sheets on all the chips used in the device, and they got about the best tools in the world. (not quite the best but damn close)
Bottom line, they were just flexing their muscle.
One of these days, enough people will get pissed off and line them up and...
T^T
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