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Re: The U.S. says it has hacked the San Bernardino shooterâ��s iPhone 

By: zzstar in FFFT3 | Recommend this post (3)
Tue, 29 Mar 16 4:30 AM | 64 view(s)
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Maybe. They are either saving face, or did a brute force on the nand chip itself after removing it from the phone.

I have no problem with brute force attacks, so long as there is a warrant/judge order.

Now, it is up to Apple to make sure the chip is destroyed if removed from the motherboard.

All this assuming they did it, and they aren't going off the public view because they realized what they were asking Apple to do jeopardizes national security. There cannot be a "master key".




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The U.S. says it has hacked the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone
By: clo in FFFT3
Tue, 29 Mar 16 3:58 AM 		Msg. 20620 of 65535

The U.S. says it has hacked the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone, ending the suit against Apple but raising new privacy questions
Monday, March 28, 2016 6:04 PM EDT

The Justice Department said Monday that it was withdrawing a legal action that would have forced Apple to cripple the security system on an iPhone used by a terrorist.

The Justice Department is stepping back from the case — which involved demanding Apple’s help to open the iPhone used by Syed Rizwan Farook, a gunman in a mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., last year — because law enforcement has found another way into the device, officials said in a filing.
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