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Academic beats FBI by unlocking Apple iPhone for £75
by Victorismyhero Tue Sep 20, 2016 6:04 pm
A British university researcher has done what the FBI claimed was impossible by unlocking an iPhone - for just £75.
Earlier this year the US agency took Apple to court - and sparked a worldwide privacy debate - as it fought to get the iPhone of San Bernardino terrorist Syed Rizwan Farook unlocked.
Eventually the court case was dropped after the FBI paid a security firm an estimated £900,000 ($1.3m) to access the device.
But Cambridge University's Dr Sergei Skorobogatov has demonstrated how to crack the password on an iPhone using only equipment available in a typical computer shop.
but of course british academia and inventivness counts for nothing does it....
Earlier this year the US agency took Apple to court - and sparked a worldwide privacy debate - as it fought to get the iPhone of San Bernardino terrorist Syed Rizwan Farook unlocked.
Eventually the court case was dropped after the FBI paid a security firm an estimated £900,000 ($1.3m) to access the device.
But Cambridge University's Dr Sergei Skorobogatov has demonstrated how to crack the password on an iPhone using only equipment available in a typical computer shop.
but of course british academia and inventivness counts for nothing does it....
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Re: Academic beats FBI by unlocking Apple iPhone for £75
by Victorismyhero Tue Sep 20, 2016 6:05 pm
and dont forget...the americans spent millions developing a pen to work in space...the russians used a pencil.......
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