The Detroit (Michigan) department has serious suspicions about the operation of the iPhone
In 2015 we witnessed a curious dispute between Apple and the FBI regarding iPhone encryption. The FBI wanted to unlock the phone of an alleged terrorist to find evidence and Apple, in favor of the privacy of its users, refused. Now police believe Apple has invented revolutionary software to prevent an iPhone from being unlocked.
Officers from the Detroit, Michigan, department are warning other police officers about strange iPhone behavior. They believe it is modified to communicate with other iPhones stored in the evidence room for forensic examination and that they reset on purpose to avoid being unlocked.
The news has come to light from the hand of 404 Media and refers to a change in iOS 18 designed by Apple to protect iPhone encryption.
Apple iPhones mysteriously reboot and police believe they are communicating with each other
Detroit police think Apple must have incorporated a security mechanism in iOS 18 which ensures that an iPhone communicates with others and restarts itself when disconnected from a mobile data network.
They believe that iPhone models running iOS 18 They communicate with each other to reboot themselves and prevent brute force decryption processes from being successful.
(…) a situation related to iPhones that cause other iPhones to reboot in a short period of time (observations possibly within 24 hours) when removed from a mobile data network. If the iPhone was in After First Unlock (AFU) mode, the device returns to Before First Unlock (BFU) mode after the reset. This hinders the achievement of digital evidence of devices.
The mode After First Unlock (AFU) implies that an iPhone has already been unlocked at least once by its owner using Face ID or a password. Apparently, when an iPhone loses this condition it is much more difficult to unlock with brute force methods.
Detroit police consider that these iPhone phones with iOS 18.0 are capable of communicating with others, if the right conditions are met, sending a signal to initiate a restart after a period of time has passed without activity or disconnected from the network.
According to reports from 404 Media, even those iPhones that are in airplane mode or inside a Faraday cage restart. A Farday cage is capable of blocking any electromagnetic signal.
Two experts in the field, Matthew Green and Johns Hopkins, believe that the police hypothesis is “deeply suspicious” but have been very impressed with the concept. They think the idea of phones periodically restarting without a network connection is absolutely brilliant and think that if Apple has done it on purpose it is an amazing initiative. Do you think Apple has included a security feature in iOS 18?
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Source: ipadizate.com
