NAND mirroring proof-of-concept show that FBI could use it to crack iPhone

So NAND mirroring doesn’t work to crack into Syed Farook’s work iPhone and grab the contents, huh? Tell that to the security researcher’s proof-of-concept demonstration.

iPhone forensics expert Jonathan Zdziarski previously suggested the FBI could use NAND mirroring to get information off the locked San Bernadino shooter’s iPhone; yet FBI Director James Comey claimed that making a copy of the phone’s chip to get around the passcode “doesn’t work” and the solution would be “software-based.”

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