New from 404 Media: police freaking out at iPhones stored for forensic examination mysteriously rebooting themselves.
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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 https://www.404media.co/police-freak-out-at-iphones-mysteriously-rebooting-themselves-locking-cops-out/
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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) https://www.404media.co/police-freak-out-at-iphones-mysteriously-rebooting-themselves-locking-cops-out/
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This applied to phones that were in Airplane mode, and even one in a faraday box https://www.404media.co/police-freak-out-at-iphones-mysteriously-rebooting-themselves-locking-cops-out/
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The cause is unclear right now, and the iOS 18 update is just a police theory. Matthew Green said that theory was "deeply suspect" https://www.404media.co/police-freak-out-at-iphones-mysteriously-rebooting-themselves-locking-cops-out/
