Last month, we saw an incredible confrontation between the FBI Justice Ministry and Apple. The apple of the dispute was the iPhone of the San Bernardino terrorist, which Apple refused to unlock for the FBI.
The public confrontation and strongly worded rhetoric from the Justice Department ended when the FBI announced that an Israeli company security will "break" the terrorist's cell phone, withdrawing the lawsuit.
For those who do not know, there are many zero-day exploits companies, and usually their best customers, are government security agencies.
It is widely known by Edward Snowden that the government is using zero-day flaws and does not announce it because if it simply says it to software developers, the security gap will close immediately.
Are you still wondering?
So ACLU's Christopher Soghoia tweet probably answers the title question: "the government does not reveal security loopholes in companies like Apple" if they prove useful to law enforcement.
[tweet_embed id = 712067889071837184]Law enforcement agencies that want to use these flaws for surveillance and technology companies that want to fix them immediately to protect their users from hackers. Meanwhile the secret services sit right in the middle. The NSA has said before that it discloses the vast majority of zero-days, but does not do so before they are used for the first time.
Will the FBI reveal the flaw when it is used? "Amazing", said Soghoian.
Many believe that a external ομάδα ασφαλείας θα μπορούσε να βοηθήσει το FBI να σπάσει το τηλέφωνο με mirroring στη NAND memory, για να μην διαγραφεί η device όσες φορές και αν χρησιμοποιηθούν συνδυασμοί κωδικών access, from brute force attacks.
Whatever the flaw that will actually be exploited, there is no difference from the government's mandate to Apple to rewrite its software to bypass iPhone security features. In this way the FBI could use brute force attacks to open the phone.
In any case, think of it as a backdoor that Apple and other technology companies would like to fix as well as any other vulnerability.
Of course, the above assumptions may prove totally untrue if the FBI plans to deliver the exploit immediately after unlocking the device.
No matter what the US government has, it will have to file a report on the court situation as early as April 5 and we will learn more.
