Path: csiph.com!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!news.glorb.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Sylvia Else Newsgroups: alt.2600,rec.arts.sf.written,alt.astronomy,sci.physics,sci.physics.relativity Subject: Re: unloock a phone Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 12:08:37 +1100 Lines: 56 Message-ID: References: <56D088CF.6970@ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net h6Fks5aNB81a3pu3uHhXGQtGC4zibzmOLp7sm4FNi+GlOO3n9B Cancel-Lock: sha1:H2wlsSZqn9PcVaR+bax+w17jiw0= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 In-Reply-To: <56D088CF.6970@ix.netcom.com> Xref: csiph.com rec.arts.sf.written:434120 alt.astronomy:282476 sci.physics:557441 sci.physics.relativity:377378 On 27/02/2016 4:18 AM, The Starmaker wrote: > you mean to tell me the F.B.I don't know how to unlock a phone? > > > > How stupid can they be???? > > > I mean...I know the FBI are just a bunch of wet behind the ears > stupid guys...but i didn't know > they didn't know how to unlock a phone. > > Couldn't they simply do a google search? > > Or some 3 year old on youtube could should show them how... > > > > you mean to tell me the F.B.I don't know how to unlock a phone? > > > i mean...How stupid can they be???? > > > > I mean I don't get it? > > > I mean, if you want to bust out of jail, you do a google search for digging tunnels, right???? > > > I mean, a FBI guy should be able to go home and > ask his 6 year old son "Can you unlock this for me??" > > > Even a 3 year old knows you don't call APPLE! > You presumably think any competent hacker could get in. The problem is that hacking involves the exploitation of mistakes in software, and that exploitation requires that the software be willing to interact with the hacker to some extent. The phone is in a state where the only things it's willing to do is to accept and check a PIN, and presumably also to accept software updates signed by Apple. If that's all it will do, and trying multiple PINS will result in its being wiped, then either Apple has to sign a special version of the software, or the FBI are stuck. There are possible hardware attacks, but their feasibility depends on exactly how the hardware is structured. In addition, a hardware attack risks destroying the electronics, and with it the very information the FBI wants to recover. Sylvia.