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Re: unlock a phone

Message-ID	<56D9E233.4689@ix.netcom.com> (permalink)
Date	2016-03-04 11:29 -0800
From	The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com>
Newsgroups	alt.2600, rec.arts.sf.written, alt.astronomy, sci.physics, sci.physics.relativity
Subject	Re: unlock a phone
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The Starmaker wrote:
> 
> The Starmaker wrote:
> >
> > Even if the Justice Department loses its legal showdown with Apple Inc.
> > over access to a killer’s iPhone, the government might still be able to
> > extract the data locked away inside it, computer-security experts say.
> > But it would be risky, expensive and time-consuming.
> >
> > Those experts say officials could try to physically crack open the A6
> > microprocessor inside the phone of Syed Rizwan Farook, targeting the
> > portion of the chip that holds the user ID, or UID, key. With the key,
> > officials could move the iPhone’s scrambled data to another computer and
> > quickly unlock it.
> 
> If agents were able to obtain it by probing the chip, however, they
> would then only need to guess Mr. Farook’s passcode, free of the
> limitations that have so far prevented them from accessing the phone.
> 
> The most likely method to extract the key, the experts said, would be by
> using a focused ion beam—essentially a very precise atomic saw that can
> cut through the chip’s outer structures to expose the 1s and 0s stored
> in the chip.



http://www.wsj.com/articles/chip-hacking-might-help-fbi-unlock-iphones-1457050959



work the problem.

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unloock a phone The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-02-26 09:18 -0800
  Re: unloock a phone The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-02-26 22:08 -0800
    Re: unloock a phone The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-02-29 10:58 -0800
      Re: unloock a phone Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-03-01 14:25 +1100
        Re: unloock a phone benj <nobody@gmail.com> - 2016-02-29 22:32 -0500
          Re: unloock a phone Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-03-01 22:00 +1100
        Re: unlock a phone The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-03-04 11:27 -0800
          Re: unlock a phone The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-03-04 11:28 -0800
            Re: unlock a phone The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-03-04 11:29 -0800
              Re: unlock a phone The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-03-04 14:40 -0800
                Re: unlock a phone The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-03-12 09:55 -0800
                Re: unlock a phone The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-03-15 11:40 -0800
  Re: unloock a phone Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-02-28 12:08 +1100
    Re: unloock a phone Emigdio Sophronius <emigg@augustvisitors.org> - 2016-02-28 14:09 +0000
    Re: unloock a phone "Colonel Edmund J. Burke" <burkesgurlz@t-girls.com> - 2016-02-28 06:10 -0800
      Re: unloock a phone Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-02-29 11:24 +1100
        Re: unloock a phone "Colonel Edmund J. Burke" <burkesgurlz@t-girls.com> - 2016-02-28 16:50 -0800
    Re: unloock a phone Diesel <me@privacy.net> - 2016-02-29 19:52 +0000
  [OT] "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-02-28 23:30 +0800
    Re: [OT] FromTheRafters <erratic@nomail.afraid.org> - 2016-02-28 10:56 -0500
      Re: [OT] "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-02-29 00:10 +0800
    Re: [OT] Wolffan <AKWolffan@gmail.com> - 2016-02-28 17:53 -0500
      Re: [OT] "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-02-29 19:17 +0800
    Re: [OT] The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-02-28 19:59 -0800
      Re: [OT] "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-02-29 19:19 +0800
        Re: [OT] The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-02-29 14:44 -0800
          Re: [OT] "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-03-01 18:53 +0800
            Re: [OT] The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-03-01 14:16 -0800
              Re: [OT] "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-03-02 21:46 +0800
                Re: [OT] The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-03-02 18:24 -0800
                Re: [OT] The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-03-02 22:22 -0800
  [OT] Go misc.phone.mobile.iphone "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-03-01 18:58 +0800
  Re: unloock a phone, NO< its about them unlocking everyone's phones tesla sTinker <staff@truecarpentry.net> - 2016-03-13 11:27 -0700

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