How did the FBI access the trump rally shooters phone?
How did the FBI access the trump rally shooters phone?
The FBI has said it gained access to Thomas Matthew Crooks' iPhone, but it's not completely clear how.
if he had biometrics turned on they might have just pointed it at his face
it's totally this or fingerprint. don't forget the omni fingerprint set that supposedly can unlock any phone in one hand's worth of composite fingerprints.
I feel like that's the first thing they would try, article says they took a few days
I doubt there was a lot of his face left.
I worked for a private company in computer forensics. We had two machines, expensive machines, dedicated to accessing phones. I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess the FBI has something similar, if not better, at their disposal.
Were the machines always successful? If not, how often did they fail and why? Was there a difference between Android or iPhones?
Short of the device being damaged, they were successful 100% of the time. No difference between manufacturers and platforms.
Basically all phone, iphone and Android
This is an arms race, at the moment the crackers are in the lead.
There is probably some kind of backdoor into devices utilizing a recovery or diagnostic mode. Either that or AES has been broken for many years now
It's probably some set of zero days they're sitting on.
Celebrite gets mentioned
Passcode 0000
1234
How did you guess my password!!
through the inbuilt backdoor
I don’t disagree with the article, but it strikes me as speculation. I would sooner say that we don’t know, though the assumptions are fairly reasonable.
I mean it's not like we'll ever know, so I think there's a little fun to be had in speculating
Certainly, but I’m just too eager to know the technical details if there were some.
Biometrics, also people are horrible at making good passwords/pin codes. There's also normally a few tricks to get around being locked out for X minutes/days/years. Also you can bet Apple or whoever made his phone bent over backwards to help the FBI get in to that phone. The idiot tried to shoot a former president of the United States.