Yes, you lot got it right, the same Apple vs. FBI case where the FBI paid almost $1.3 Million to a grouping of hackers to unlock that iPhone.
However, if the way had shown some patience to explore to a greater extent than ways to larn into that iPhone, thence it mightiness get got toll them zippo less than US$100.
Yes, you lot heard that right. Now anyone tin unlock an iPhone for less than $100, for which the FBI paid more than $1 million.
Cheap Method to Unlock iPhone 5C
Cambridge University safety researcher Sergei Skorobogatov has published a novel inquiry newspaper detailing a technique that would get got helped the FBI bypass the iOS passcode bound on the shooter's iPhone 5C.
Dubbed NAND Mirroring, the technique was proposed to the FBI before this year, but the way claimed that the method would non work. "It does non work," FBI Director James Comey said dorsum inward March, as well as instead paid a hefty amount to a contractor.
In his inquiry newspaper published on Thursday, Skorobogatov says that the FBI was merely incorrect inward its assessment of NAND Mirroring, but besides spent $1 1000000 of taxpayers' funds on a illustration that could get got been solved for a few hundred dollars.
Here's How the Researcher Unlocked iPhone 5C:
NAND Mirroring technique "does non require whatsoever expensive as well as sophisticated equipment. All needed parts are depression toll as well as were obtained from local electronics distributors," writes Skorobogatov.
During his test, Skorobogatov used store-bought equipment, stripped downwardly an iPhone 5C running iOS 9.3, carefully removed the NAND retention fleck from the phone’s circuit board, as well as copied its information to a particular exam board many times over.
The researcher thence used an automated software to animal forcefulness the passcode until he establish the right code as well as said it takes merely about twenty hours to brute-force a four-digit passcode, field few weeks amongst a six-digit one.
"This is the kickoff populace demonstration of…the existent hardware mirroring procedure for iPhone 5C," Skorobogatov writes. "Any assailant amongst sufficient technical skills could repeat the experiments."So far, the FBI as well as Apple get got non commented on Skorobogatov's research.
The Method Works on iPhone 5S as well as iPhone 6 Devices
Besides iPhone 5C, his develop on besides industrial plant on iPhone 5S equally good equally iPhone 6 devices using the same type of NAND Flash memory. The develop on tin besides move adapted on other iPhones using unlike NANDs.
For to a greater extent than technical details most this technique to bypass iPhone's passcode safety limit, you lot tin caput onto his research paper.
You tin besides scout the video demonstration, where Skorobogatov explained the NAND Mirroring technique.
