"Law enforcement officers are warning other officials and forensic experts that iPhones which have been stored securely for forensic examination are somehow rebooting themselves, returning the devices to a state that makes them much harder to unlock...
After the reboot, the devices entered a Before First Unlock (BFU) state... This made unlocking them significantly harder, and... cracking them is now not possible with current tooling.
“That is utterly bizarre and amazing,” Matthew Green, a cryptographer and associate professor at Johns Hopkins University, told 404 Media...
“The idea that phones should reboot periodically after an extended period with no network is absolutely brilliant and I’m amazed if indeed Apple did it on purpose,” he said."
https://www.404media.co/police-freak-out-at-iphones-mysteriously-rebooting-themselves-locking-cops-out/
#Privacy #Surveillance #Police #Data #Tech #Apple #iPhone #InfoSec #Security
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