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Forensics expert says FBI to use NAND mirroring to crack terrorist's iPhone

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An outside contractor with established ties to the FBI has most likely shown investigators how to circumvent the iPhone’s security measures by copying the contents of the device’s flash storage, a forensics expert said today.</p><p>
Called “NAND mirroring,” the technique relies on using numerous copies of the iPhone storage to input possible passcodes until the correct one is found.</p><p>
“The other ideas, I’ve kind of ruled out,” said Jonathan Zdziarski in an interview. Zdziarski is a noted iPhone forensics and security expert. “None of them seemed to fit.”</p><p>
Those other methods, Zdziarski continued, had to be scratched because: they posed dangers to the data; would have been unpalatable to the FBI; could have been explored much earlier in the ongoing dispute with Apple over the iPhone 5C used by Syed Rizwan Farook; or would take much longer than the two weeks the Department of Justice has given itself.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3047542/ios/forensics-expert-says-fbi-to-use-nand-mirroring-to-crack-terrorists-iphone.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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