Nand mirroring, here’s how the FBI can unlock the iPhone – AGI – Agenzia Journalistic Italy

Rome – It’s called Nand mirroring the ‘key’ that the FBI could use to enter the iPhone , without the permission of the Apple and that would allow you to unlock the smartphone author of the massacre of San Bernardino, California, last December 2. The process is very complex, if not impossible, for a beginner, but certainly just a well-equipped hackers.

Here’s how it works:

First, engineers must open the ‘iPhone and desoldering the chip on the motherboard of the phone. At this point they need to replicate it exactly. Basically they have to make a kind of burning, as you do with CDs and DVDs, on a different medium, a kind of external memory card (SD card). In this way, after exactly replicated the ‘brain’, can be inserted from time to time the exact copies of the chip and groped 10 times for each chip to guess the 4 or 6-digit PIN. After 10 attempts the Apple smartphone is blocked.

This is a procedure, however, it is time consuming, especially for the fact that every time you insert the chip in the iPhone copied must restart the device. For a 4-digit code, the procedure should be repeated a thousand times, and for the 6-digit pin, introduced with the update to iOS 9.3, you should try the combination of numbers for about 100 thousand times. As for e-mail boxes, notoriously vulnerable to so-called brute force attacks (ie the ‘bombing’ passwords through specific software that automatically generate keywords), with Apple pin the game gets to far more complex.

in the aftermath of yet another defense inviolability ‘of the Cupertino company’s flagship product, in the name of the customer from the ad Tim Cook privacy, the FBI leaked the news that he would find a way to unlock the smartphone author of the San Bernardino massacre. Massacre in which Rizwan Farook and his wife killed 14 people. So far Apple had resisted all the injunctions of the judges who had ordered to create a software to unlock the iPhone. The giant California had opposed arguing that this system could be used not only for terrorist smartphone, but for everyone. Now the FBI stated that it could do on its own and therefore has obtained the postponement to April 5 hearing. In papers filed for the court, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office reported that an unidentified “third party” has proven to be able to unlock the iPhone FBI terrorist. This third party would be a group of hackers willing to put to the test with the Nand mirroring the armored smartphone bitten apple. You will see if it successfully. (AGI)

 
March 25, 2016 ©