Comment by giancarlostoro
1 day ago
Interesting that it wound up not being Cellebrite, I thought for years it was, I wonder if Cellebrite had people lie to the press that it was them. Really effective marketing.
I agree, the line is at messing with End to End Encryption. If your E2EE has a backdoor ITS NOT END TO END ENCRYPTION. Thanks.
It's not exactly E2EE. iPhone storage is locked with a 6-digit numeric passcode in most cases, which is basically no entropy. The whole thing relies on hardware security (the enclave). At least in older phones, that just meant security through obscurity since Apple's trade secrets were enough to unlock it, but maybe newer ones can't be unlocked even by Apple.