On Thursday 404 Media reported that police were freaking out about mysteriously rebooting iPhones. Now multiple experts have found that Apple introduced code that reboots locked phones after a period of time.
On Thursday 404 Media reported that police were freaking out about mysteriously rebooting iPhones. Now multiple experts have found that Apple introduced code that reboots locked phones after a period of time.
What exactly does this do? From OP’s excerpt it says the phones reboot when they are already locked and the rest is paywalled…
If your phone is running, your decryption key is stored in memory in the phone (this is slightly oversimplified, iPhones use a special chip with an enclave to do this). After a reboot, the decryption key doesn’t actually exist yet until you enter your PIN (as the PIN is part of that decryption key), so it’s harder to get to by an attacker.
Reboots if phone has been disconnected from network for some arbitrary time, it is suspected to be less than 24 hours that this happens in.
This stops cops from hacking the phone using exploits etc.