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    John Mcafee will crack shooter’s iPhone for free to get FBI off Apple’s back

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    • IRJ
      IRJ last edited by IRJ

      http://www.geek.com/news/john-mcafee-will-crack-shooters-iphone-for-free-to-get-fbi-off-apples-back-1647659/

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      • DustinB3403
        DustinB3403 last edited by

        That dude is insane, granted I'm certain someone (or group) could do this, would I really want to trust it to McAfee to do it?

        I'm in complete support of Apple on this, the FBI can piss off and do it them selves. But putting together a crack band of people to do this seems like an even worse issue.

        Also John didn't say anything about anyone other than himself getting paid according to the article. . .

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        • Deleted74295
          Deleted74295 Banned last edited by

          "McAfee promises that his crack team will be able to complete the job in just three weeks and they’ll break in by leveraging social engineering techniques."

          ....What?

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          • dafyre
            dafyre @Deleted74295 last edited by

            @Breffni-Potter said:

            "McAfee promises that his crack team will be able to complete the job in just three weeks and they’ll break in by leveraging social engineering techniques."

            ....What?

            He has spies, lol.

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            • IRJ
              IRJ @Deleted74295 last edited by

              @Breffni-Potter said:

              "McAfee promises that his crack team will be able to complete the job in just three weeks and they’ll break in by leveraging social engineering techniques."

              ....What?

              Researching emails, past password hacks, etc. Who knows they could have been Home Depot customers...lol

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              • BRRABill
                BRRABill last edited by

                It's kind of scary there are so many better hackers in the outside world than at the FBI.

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                • BRRABill
                  BRRABill last edited by

                  There has been a lot of chatter on his Facebook page about how to do this without wiping the phone after 10 tries.

                  Someone said you can do a byte-by-byte copy of the drive, and then just keep trying and trying.

                  I wonder if that is doable.

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                  • scottalanmiller
                    scottalanmiller @BRRABill last edited by

                    @BRRABill said:

                    It's kind of scary there are so many better hackers in the outside world than at the FBI.

                    Why is that scary? The last thing you want is the bad guys to have the good hackers.

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                    • scottalanmiller
                      scottalanmiller @BRRABill last edited by

                      @BRRABill said:

                      Someone said you can do a byte-by-byte copy of the drive, and then just keep trying and trying.

                      I've proposed that in the past as the "there is no such thing as full protection via hardware". The theory is that the "burn" mechanism is so close to the drive that you can't do a byte by byte copy, but I find it unlikely that that is true.

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                      • BRRABill
                        BRRABill @scottalanmiller last edited by

                        @scottalanmiller said:

                        I've proposed that in the past as the "there is no such thing as full protection via hardware". The theory is that the "burn" mechanism is so close to the drive that you can't do a byte by byte copy, but I find it unlikely that that is true.

                        Yes, I know you have.

                        :)

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