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Secure ROM extraction on iPhone 6S

by tomstokes on 12/5/16, 7:38 PM with 46 comments

  • by mschuster91 on 12/5/16, 9:43 PM

    Wow. That's some serious skill that went into this.

    If the author is reading: how did you develop that multi-layer board? Do you have a PCB fab that can print a board in, say, one or two days time? And how did you assemble that PCIe inject board, given those ultra small SMD parts? Did you order a fully-built PCB or did you do all this by hand?

  • by deegles on 12/5/16, 10:31 PM

    How many people on the planet are capable of doing this? What's your best Fermi estimate?
  • by a2tech on 12/5/16, 9:18 PM

    Does this allow circumvention/dumping of the SecureBoot keys? Its an impressive looking piece of kit for sure, but the English leaves me confused as to what they were able to actually accomplish.
  • by vbezhenar on 12/6/16, 6:58 AM

    I really hope that jailbreakers will be able to downgrade iPhone 4S from iOS 9.3 to iOS 6. I stayed current when Apple released updates, even with terrible performance, but now it's really doesn't make any sense to stay on that laggy iOS 9, if I could use blazing fast iOS 6.
  • by pjc50 on 12/6/16, 10:34 AM

    That jig is a beautiful piece of mechanical engineering.
  • by wernercd on 12/6/16, 1:07 AM

    So... when can we expect a 9.3.5 jailbreak :) This is some seriously badass stuff going on...
  • by felixfurtak on 12/5/16, 11:06 PM

    In a digital world, the analog voltmeter is a nice touch
  • by mmastrac on 12/5/16, 10:00 PM

    If the author of the blog is reading this, the site seems to be unavailable from my location on the Shaw Canada network. I thought it was down, but it appears there's some sort of network error preventing my packets from making it from here to there. This happened on the previous (and very interesting) article as well.

    archive.is link for anyone else having this issue: http://archive.is/bA9Ak