That won’t work on my 6s
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There are a lot of tools that are suppose to be sold to Law Enforcement only that still end up in the hands of criminals and others who are not in law enforcement.
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Grayshift May Already Have iPhone Unlocking Solution for iOS 12's USB Restricted Mode
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That won’t work on my 6s
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There are a lot of tools that are suppose to be sold to Law Enforcement only that still end up in the hands of criminals and others who are not in law enforcement.
Apple also pushing for unique password adoption so their box may work but it will take 30 years to maybe unlock.
Hey, it's just taxpayer money. And, something like this might even be federally funded, along with tanks and all that other kind of police gear.
Yeah, considering the police lose nearly 200k guns each year in the US, I'm guessing one of these boxes could get lost too.
Sessions is 5'5; could pass as a vertically challenged Darth Vader. Sometimes our heroes have to be a little evil to get things done right.
The OS is not running in DFU so the iPhone won't ask for a password therefor it can't be unlocked, AFAIK the data on the iPhone is encrypted so what you suggest won't work.
If you think Apple doesn’t have contacts in law enforcement, you’re a little naive. Everyone has a price and Apple can afford every price.
Exactly. You think some cop making $30k a year isn't going to jump to snatch one of these up and sell it to Apple? lol.
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Because Apple has like $300,000,000,000 to play with.
Well if you're going to bring force or torture into the equation then we're no longer talking about a convenient security feature.Sure. Like a government agency hell bent on opening your phone wouldn't make you open your eyes.
Some have said Grayshift is just saying they defeated the security measures to sell products. While I agree companies are motivated to stretch the truth I’d also point out that in this case it would fraud. They either can or cannot defeat the security measure. Saying you can when you can’t would be fraud.
Except Apple go to great length to make sure that can not happen
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We are talking about law enforcement so yeah they pretty much would just take their word for it. If law enforcement were clever and not just a bunch of corrupt sods they would not need to hack peoples phones
Regardless if this is true, or just brinkmanship, one of the underlying truths of security is that physical access makes it easier to gain logical access. The fact that LEO's have physical access means that if a hack is available... they will be able to use it.
If they were smart, they would've waited until iOS 12 was in the GM stage to announce this. Now Apple can look into fixing their bypass.
Which makes me think this is a marketing bluff to reassure their customers and have a reason to say they couldn’t do it when the GM rolls around.
Is that a speculation? I don't know why you think that what apple can do, greykey can't do? Hardware, if greykey can't update the hardware, so can't apple. Worst is apple has millions of iPhone spread across the world. Firmware.. I don't know how frequqnfre apple updates the firmware of iPhone. But greykey may post the new firmware on their website, so that box can download and update it. Same applies to the software. So...
There is nothing to stop the government from doing this to you. There is nothing to stop a criminal using the exact same exploit from doing this to your phone. "Ours" is EXACTLY what I meant. Did I stutter?
So split the signing key into chunks and make it so no single person ever knows it in its entirety.
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They can obfuscate the code, but at some point, the device has to interact with Apple's code. As for encrypting the code, they'd need to ship it with a decryption key; otherwise, it would would have a hard time running.
R u calling our police corrupt?
Who on earth loves da cops dude? U mad? lol
I wonder if it's the idea of fooling the phone's clock. Anyway, there's no final patch for this other than requiring a stronger password. They'll always find a way to rip the memory off the phone then crack the weak 5-6 numeric password.
Also, where's that guy who usually comments and says he works for an iPhone hacking company? He was saying last time that he was working on a workaround.
Also, where's that guy who usually comments and says he works for an iPhone hacking company? He was saying last time that he was working on a workaround.
Maybe, but it seems a bad idea to lie in your advertising about something you are trying to sell to law enforcement.
If it's software/firmware, they issue an update to the very few entities that have a box, vs Apple who's trying to give out patches to millions of users. If it's hardware, they do the same except charge money that they know people will pay.