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.

    •  jonne   ( @jonne@infosec.pub ) 
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      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.