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The laboratory is a room isolated from radio waves, packed with powerful equipment.
While the Donald Trump administration is pushing Apple to implement backdoors on the iPhone, New York authorities are looking for other ways to retrieve data from Apple devices seized as evidence.
According to the American magazine Fast Company, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. (Cyrus Vance Jr.), together with the anti-crime unit, has established a special laboratory for hacking the iPhone and iPad. The laboratory is a radio-isolated room in the Lefkowitz Building office building in lower Manhattan. The room is located behind two sealed metal doors that block electromagnetic waves.
“Dozens of iPhones and iPads of varying degrees of malfunction are located on one of the walls. Some have a broken front glass or a broken case. Others look like they were pulled out of a fire. Of course, the devices collected here are not for repair. They constitute material evidence seized during investigations of alleged crimes, ”reports Fast Company.
This "electronic prison" was created for the sole purpose of extracting data from devices using brute force algorithms. All iPhones connect to two powerful computers that generate random numbers in an attempt to find the code to unlock. At night, other computers in the office also go to work.
The laboratory is packed with powerful equipment managed by a team of highly qualified experts (many of them are former military). Currently, experts manage to crack 82% of devices, but five years ago this figure was 52%.
As Steven Moran, head of the high technology analysis unit, explained, there are 10,000 possible combinations for a four-digit password. However, since 2015, Apple has introduced six-digit codes, and the number of combinations has increased to 1 million.
Prosecutor Vance has been “fighting” with tech giants since 2014. He met with representatives of Interpol and Europol, published articles in the press and even wrote letters to the leadership of Apple and Google. Prior to the release of iOS 8 in 2014, where encryption was implemented, Apple willingly collaborated with the prosecutor's office. Having received the corresponding warrant, Vance could easily send the necessary device to the headquarters of the company and a few days later he received it back along with a "flash drive" containing the data specified in the warrant.
“They (technology companies - ed.) Liked to work with law enforcement agencies, they were proud of this cooperation,” Vance said.
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While the Donald Trump administration is pushing Apple to implement backdoors on the iPhone, New York authorities are looking for other ways to retrieve data from Apple devices seized as evidence.
According to the American magazine Fast Company, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. (Cyrus Vance Jr.), together with the anti-crime unit, has established a special laboratory for hacking the iPhone and iPad. The laboratory is a radio-isolated room in the Lefkowitz Building office building in lower Manhattan. The room is located behind two sealed metal doors that block electromagnetic waves.
“Dozens of iPhones and iPads of varying degrees of malfunction are located on one of the walls. Some have a broken front glass or a broken case. Others look like they were pulled out of a fire. Of course, the devices collected here are not for repair. They constitute material evidence seized during investigations of alleged crimes, ”reports Fast Company.
This "electronic prison" was created for the sole purpose of extracting data from devices using brute force algorithms. All iPhones connect to two powerful computers that generate random numbers in an attempt to find the code to unlock. At night, other computers in the office also go to work.
The laboratory is packed with powerful equipment managed by a team of highly qualified experts (many of them are former military). Currently, experts manage to crack 82% of devices, but five years ago this figure was 52%.
As Steven Moran, head of the high technology analysis unit, explained, there are 10,000 possible combinations for a four-digit password. However, since 2015, Apple has introduced six-digit codes, and the number of combinations has increased to 1 million.
Prosecutor Vance has been “fighting” with tech giants since 2014. He met with representatives of Interpol and Europol, published articles in the press and even wrote letters to the leadership of Apple and Google. Prior to the release of iOS 8 in 2014, where encryption was implemented, Apple willingly collaborated with the prosecutor's office. Having received the corresponding warrant, Vance could easily send the necessary device to the headquarters of the company and a few days later he received it back along with a "flash drive" containing the data specified in the warrant.
“They (technology companies - ed.) Liked to work with law enforcement agencies, they were proud of this cooperation,” Vance said.
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