https://www.xda-developers.com/fbi-gain-access-trump-rally-shooter-phone/?user=bWlrZWF3ZXNvbWUzQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ&lctg=460c8af606d1876987d97a4a94224d36b1d50f51a3dc2956018d5d51f9ee7af8
The FBI has said it gained access to Thomas Matthew Crooks' iPhone, but it's not completely clear how.
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.
Actually, his face was pretty much in tact. There's close up pictures of the shooter dead online, I believe they shot him in the neck. Don't get me wrong, taking close up photos of him dead is pretty fucked up, considering how the parents must've felt about all of this.
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
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.
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