How can the FBI not crack one iphone s encryption?
NOT A MORAL QUESTION a technical question. I consider myself above average in technology, but I don't get why the FBI needs help on this. I understand the phone erases everything after x amount of attempts, but surely taking out the storage and attacking it from a separate OS bypasses that feature? Similar to when you forget your password on a device, then boot it from an external drive and change/recover it that way.
This issue came up on a certain radio show yesterday.
the host suggested that the FBI is pretending to need help, to cover for the fact that our government already has the capability to crack into the phone, and has already done so.
They only get 10 tries before the phone locks permanently. That's the main issue here.
They would have been better off going to the company and asking for that specific phone to be unlocked.
All the data on the drive is encrypted, you can't just pop it out & read it. Maybe you could try to get the key by brute-force methods, but that might take a long, long time.
IOS devices have multiple levels of encryption. One layer is based on the devices UDID
https://en.wikipedia.org/.../wiki/UDID
so trying to access it outside the device is a non-starter.
There's then a key that is built in when the phone is made and it is that which matches the passcode and disables the device if the correct passcode is not found - but again the phone needs to be alive and intact or the key is not going to work.
See…
https://www.apple.com/..._Guide.pdf
So the FBI are basically asking for a special version of iOS to be created that will bypass these layers and allow them to access the phone without fear of it shutting them out and erasing all the contents…
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2714001/SB-Shooter-Order-Compelling-Apple-Asst-iPhone.pdf
They can, it's all a lie. If it were true they can just Crack it, besides the nsa has access. Again, it's all all lie.
Lol, it cracks me up how everyone thinks they are an expert on it.
The data is encrypted and needs the passcode to unlock, the phone may have a security feature which wipes all data after a certain amount t of failed attempts. The FBI is asking apple to develop software which will allow them to bypass this feature so they can run a brute force attack against the phone. Why this can't be done without their help, I don't know.
The new iOS locks up if false entry is detected after some tries, so FBI can't brute-force the unlock screen.
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