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Re: unlock a phone

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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.

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