▲ 142 ▼ The US is charging an American citizen for wiping his phone at the border (www.theverge.com) submitted 3 months ago by TokenBoomer@lemmy.world to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world 16 comments fedilink hide all child comments Sam Tunick allegedly gave federal agents a fake ‘duress password’ at the airport. Archive link
[+] Krusty 3 points 3 months ago (2 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo 1 point 3 months ago* (1 child) Most devices aren't actually brickable because they can have their bootloader and encryption keys rewritten when plugged into a computer via processes like DFU. The procedure would be boot, start loading a patsy profile, mash up the stored keys for the volumes encryption and reboot. Or just delete the non-patsy profile. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [+] Krusty 0 points 3 months ago (1 child) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo 1 point 3 months ago I don't think you understand how low-level DFU can be. The device can have a wiped emmc and you'd still be able to talk to it and start reflashing it. There are some devices where the USB firmware and bootloader are in mask rom. permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (-1 replies)
[–] greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo 1 point 3 months ago* (1 child) Most devices aren't actually brickable because they can have their bootloader and encryption keys rewritten when plugged into a computer via processes like DFU. The procedure would be boot, start loading a patsy profile, mash up the stored keys for the volumes encryption and reboot. Or just delete the non-patsy profile. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [+] Krusty 0 points 3 months ago (1 child) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo 1 point 3 months ago I don't think you understand how low-level DFU can be. The device can have a wiped emmc and you'd still be able to talk to it and start reflashing it. There are some devices where the USB firmware and bootloader are in mask rom. permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (-1 replies)
[+] Krusty 0 points 3 months ago (1 child) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo 1 point 3 months ago I don't think you understand how low-level DFU can be. The device can have a wiped emmc and you'd still be able to talk to it and start reflashing it. There are some devices where the USB firmware and bootloader are in mask rom. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo 1 point 3 months ago I don't think you understand how low-level DFU can be. The device can have a wiped emmc and you'd still be able to talk to it and start reflashing it. There are some devices where the USB firmware and bootloader are in mask rom. permalink fedilink source parent