“The FBI isn’t keeping its new iPhone attack secret from everyone,” Russell Brandom reports for The Verge. “According to a new report in National Journal, the FBI has already briefed Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) on the methods used to break into the iPhone at the center of Apple’s recent legal fight.”
“Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) is also scheduled to be briefed on the topic in the days to come. Feinstein and Burr are both working on a new bill to limit the use of encryption in consumer technology, expected to be made public in the weeks to come,” Brandom reports. “The disclosures come amid widespread calls for the attack to be made public, particularly from privacy and technology groups.”
“It’s unclear whether the attack could successfully unlock phones with the A7 chip and accompanying secure enclave protections, implemented on all iPhones made after the 5c,” Brandom reports. “For now, the only known use of the attack is for unlocking the iPhone 5c at the center of the San Bernardino attack.”
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MacDailyNews Take: As we wrote last Friday:
The duplicitous FBI should disclose the super duper top secret third party (Cellebrite) and their double-secret method (NAND-mirroring), so that Apple can confirm that it doesn’t work with post-iPhone 5c iPhones (iPhone 5s and later) with Secure Enclaves.
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