Researcher Does What FBI Couldn't, Bypasses iOS Passcode Limit

Sergei Skorobogatov of the University of Cambridge in the UK has published new research detailing a technique that the FBI has ruled out as a viable method of bypassing the iOS passcode limit on the San Bernardino's shooter iPhone.

At the start of the year, several security researchers proposed that the FBI use a technique called NAND mirroring to clone the phone's memory as many times as they want and try all the passcodes they wanted, until the discovered the one that unlocks the phone.

The FBI said NAND mirroring wouldn't work

After the FBI abandoned any legal measures to force Apply to help it crack the San Bernardino shooter's phone, FBI Director James Comey said the agency would seek a way to hack the device using other means.

In a press conference on March 24, Comey said the NAND mirroring technique doesn't work, and several weeks later they announced they paid $1 million to a private company to hack the device.

In his researcher, Skorobo...