It should not have been the Israeli company CelleBrite, as previously thought, but one or more professional hackers who helped the FBI to gain access to the encrypted data on the iPhone 5c phone that was used by one of the terrorists who killed a number of people in San Bernardino, California, in December last year. FBI should have paid a lump sum of aid.
This writes The Washington Post, citing unnamed people with knowledge of the case.
The hackers should have utilized information on at least one previously unknown software bugs to create a hardware-based tool that has made it possible to get around safety in iOS and mobile.
the obstacles
If you enter the wrong PIN code more than ten times, a security key on phone will be erased, making it virtually impossible to decrypt the data. In addition, increased time regularly between every time you make a new attempt to enter the code.
Can you avoid these obstacles, one can with appropriate hardware find pin code pretty quickly, at least if it only concerns if a code with four digits, which is the case in this matter, according to the Washington Post.
Exactly how hackers have done this, as well as details about the vulnerability or vulnerabilities, remains undisclosed.
the FBI has previously stated that the method that has been used, only works with the iPhone 5C and iOS 9. It is thus a relatively small user base that could potentially be affected by the vulnerability.
the matter is corrected by the “gray hats” has been made into (in this case) more correct “black hats”.
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