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Cops Can Bypass iPhone's Automatic Reboot to Get into Locked Phones

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  1. TazeTSchnitzel · · focus · HN ↗
    Is it maybe providing a bogus NTP server or something? Maybe the automatic reboot feature can be moved to the Secure Enclave or something, and made to only rely on the hardware RTC in a way that can't be tampered with.
    1. chrismarlow9 · · focus · HN ↗
      Here's a deeper dive on that question:

      <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;naehrdine.blogspot.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;11&#x2F;reverse-engineering-ios-18-inactivity.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;naehrdine.blogspot.com&#x2F;2024&#x2F;11&#x2F;reverse-engineering-i...

      Tl,dr: it&#x27;s likely baked into the sep, no ntp

      I&#x27;m wondering if you put the phone into a mode where it thinks it&#x27;s dialing emergency services or contacting them via crash detection etc that it won&#x27;t reboot. I could picture a scenario where the code is written to never disrupt an emergency services call.

      Full disclosure I don&#x27;t own an iPhone so this may not even be a thing. Just guessing based on liability risk from Apple of &quot;what&#x27;s more important than protecting the phone&quot;

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