Snowden: FBI Claim That Only Apple Can Unlock Phone Is "a sham"

Posted by bob on Mar 9, 2016 11:04 AM EDT
The Intercept_; By Jenna McLaughlin
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security researchers say there are other options, like “de-capping” the phone’s memory chip to access it outside the phone (which Snowden has also mentioned), or resetting the phone’s internal counter so that you can guess the passwords as many times as you want. Those techniques are hard and expensive and could destroy the phone, experts say — but have worked in the past.

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