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Joseph Cox (@josephcox.bsky.social):
New from 404 Media: police freaking out at iPhones stored for forensic examination mysteriously rebooting themselves. This makes brute forcing much harder. Cops hypothesize Apple pushed an update that tells nearby iPhones to reboot if not on phone network www.404media.co/police-freak...
Joseph Cox (@josephcox.bsky.social):
Here is the law enforcement document I obtained. It says that a bunch of iPhones were in an AFU state (easier to get data from). Then a bunch of them rebooted into a BFU state (much harder if not impossible to get data from)
www.404media.co/police-freak...
Joseph Cox (@josephcox.bsky.social):
This applied to phones that were in Airplane mode, and even one in a faraday box
www.404media.co/police-freak...
Joseph Cox (@josephcox.bsky.social):
The cause is unclear right now, and the iOS 18 update is just a police theory. Matthew Green said that theory was "deeply suspect" www.404media.co/police-freak...
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
The "reboot periodically after an interval without access to network" makes sense - because it would clear out glitched OS / kernel code in RAM that might have locked up the device / broken the network stack.
The inconvenience of setting phones to BFU …
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
It just reads as a common sense bit of "it just works" coding to help customers be able to recover their lost and stolen hardware.
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