• FBI agrees to unlock iPhone for Arkansas Prosecutors in murder trial.
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[quote] The FBI has agreed to help prosecutors gain access to an iPhone 6 and an iPod that might hold evidence in an Arkansas murder trial, just days after the agency managed to hack an iPhone linked to the San Bernardino terror attacks, a local prosecutor said Wednesday. Cody Hiland, prosecuting attorney for Arkansas' 20th Judicial District, said that the FBI's Little Rock field office had agreed to help his office gain access to a pair of locked devices owned by two of the suspects in the slayings of Robert and Patricia Cogdell. [/quote] [url]http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-arkansas-fbi-phone-access-20160330-story.html[/url] Hopefully Apple pushes a new version of iOS that fixes the method the FBI is using, because if not, this is gonna become a whole lot more common.
[QUOTE=Toro;50041068]Hopefully Apple pushes a new version of iOS that fixes the method the FBI is using, because if not, this is gonna become a whole lot more common.[/QUOTE] I hope they do but it is gonna be hard to know what method they used if they won't tell Apple.
interesting option a. bad journalism means that it isn't an iphone 6, meaning nothing scary about it (tldr the method was suspected to be some NAND hackery [copy the data directly off of NAND, when it tries to wipe it, just reburn the copied NAND data, phone thinks it has x more tries], which only functions on the 5c and below) option b. it is indeed a iphone 6, meaning that the thoughts of it being NAND bypassing and something only functioning on iphone 5c and below are not actually what's happening
An Ipod? Maybe a video one? "It's just as we thought, Dragonforce"
[QUOTE=Toro;50041068][url]http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-arkansas-fbi-phone-access-20160330-story.html[/url] Hopefully Apple pushes a new version of iOS that fixes the method the FBI is using, because if not, this is gonna become a whole lot more common.[/QUOTE] There's no telling if the method has even been fixed in the intervening time or not since the Feds would never let these devices update once siezed so in all likelihood it could just be they used an old exploit that Apple already patched Alternatively it could be a hardware hack that Apple can't really fix but wouldn't exactly mean anything for average citizens because they would have to loose the phone first
[QUOTE=Matthew0505;50042475]If the adversary has the physical hardware of the data, the only real guarantees you have are those from the key entropy and computation limits.[/QUOTE] Which is more secure IMO than any hardware.
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