Researcher Proves Viability of NAND Mirroring to Bypass iPhone Passcode Restrictions

NAND mirroring was outright dismissed by FBI director James Comey as a means of breaking into San Bernardino terrorist Syed Farook’s iPhone 5c during the government’s spat with Apple earlier this year. “It doesn’t work,” Comey said. Well, turns out, it does. Sergei Skorobogatov of the University ...