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bonzoesc on May 25, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple’s iOS 4 hardware encryption has been cracked

When an iPhone 3GS or newer iOS device wipes itself, it clears the key out of a protected memory area that's not accessible to iTunes, so that re-loading the bit-for-bit copy won't work.

djb_hackernews on May 25, 2011 [–]

But couldn't you copy that memory as well? Eventually the 1's and 0's are crossing a bus somewhere and you don't need iTunes for that.

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