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Re: unlock a phone

Message-ID <56D9E1E6.3C3A@ix.netcom.com> (permalink)
Date 2016-03-04 11:28 -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:
> 
> 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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unloock a phone The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-02-26 09:18 -0800
  Re: unloock a phone Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2016-02-26 09:58 -0800
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  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
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                Re: unlock a phone The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-04-21 16:46 -0700
  Re: unloock a phone Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-02-28 12:08 +1100
    Re: unloock a phone "Colonel Edmund J. Burke" <burkesgurlz@t-girls.com> - 2016-02-28 06:10 -0800
      Re: unloock a phone Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-02-28 17:37 +0100
      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
      Re: unloock a phone Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-02-29 13:14 -0800
        Re: unloock a phone Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2016-02-29 17:19 -0800
  [OT] "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-02-28 23:30 +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
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            Re: [OT] The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-03-01 14:16 -0800
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                Re: [OT] Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2016-03-02 07:17 -0800
                Re: [OT] The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-03-02 22:22 -0800
                Re: [OT] Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2016-03-03 06:38 -0800
                Re: [OT] The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-03-02 18:24 -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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