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Justice Department Wants Apple to Unlock Nine More iPhones

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> The Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., foreground, and New York City’s police commissioner, William J. Bratton, behind him, say they have about 175 iPhones they have been unable to unlock.

Wait, how many have they been able to unlock and how? Sheer luck?

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Clearly this is an agenda.

I still don't understand why Apple needs to save the FBI from it's own incompetence in asking the government office that managed the iPhone to reset the password.

It seems to me that unless tech companies come together to defend Apple, we may see (unregulated and unaccountable) government become very very part of all facets of computing.

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> The Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., foreground, and New York City’s police commissioner, William J. Bratton, behind him, say they have about 175 iPhones they have been unable to unlock. Wait, how many have they been able to unlock and how? Sheer luck?

nah they have tools that can be embedded between the touchscreen and logic board, can be used to brute force

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meEyYFlSahk

I naively thought it was a machine with a robotic finger, derp

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> The Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., foreground, and New York City’s police commissioner, William J. Bratton, behind him, say they have about 175 iPhones they have been unable to unlock. Wait, how many have they been able to unlock and how? Sheer luck?

nah they have tools that can be embedded between the touchscreen and logic board, can be used to brute force https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meEyYFlSahk I naively thought it was a machine with a robotic finger, derp

Only on iOS <= 8.1. Is there anything published that works since 8.1.1?

Re: Justice Department Wants Apple to Unlock Nine More iPhones

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> The Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., foreground, and New York City’s police commissioner, William J. Bratton, behind him, say they have about 175 iPhones they have been unable to unlock. Wait, how many have they been able to unlock and how? Sheer luck?

Depends a lot on the version of the phone and the state that they found them in, no?
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