Hacker Chronic Clears Up Misconceptions About Two-Minute iPhone Passcode Cracking Claims
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Hacker Chronic Clears Up Misconceptions About Two-Minute iPhone Passcode Cracking Claims
Last week, a Swedish company - Micro Systemation claimed that they had developed an application called XRY that is used by law enforcement to access information from passcode protected iPhones and Android based smartphones of criminal suspects or military detainees.
They also published a video, which suggested that it was very easy to crack iPhone's passcode.
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Informative! Thanks.
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What if you set your iPhone to wipe all data after ten tries? Did they cover that somewhere?
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That would only thwart them someone else enters ten wrong guesses before they hook your iPhone up to a PC and exploit it. This exploit doesn't use the logon screen and thus doesn't trigger the wipe.Find My iPhone's remote wipe will work (if done in time) because that deletes the key hashes this exploit is trying to brute force.Using a strong password (for instance one generated by apg on a machine with working random numbers) is a much better solution. If your password is 8-10 letters and numbers, and the only place in the universe it exists is inside your head, then your adversary is more likely to win the lottery on consecutive weeks than guess your password.
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What is Apple doing?
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What is Apple doing about what?!?
