So is this whole thing REALLY about the US Government losing access or more about them not wanting to expose their over-the-air code execution techniques?
Since presumably if they capture an already running device, they can just get the warrant, and ask the cellular network to send their specially crafted packet (which can unlock the phone, SMS the encryption key, or similar).
Sorry but if the Intelligence Services cannot unlock an encrypted device STILL RUNNING then I'll eat my hat.
> So is this whole thing REALLY about the US Government losing access or more about them not wanting to expose their over-the-air code execution techniques?
Obviously, the latter.
More to the point, the type of regular police who would push for this probably aren't even aware that such code execution techniques might exist.
PDF(!) https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/woot12/woot12...
So is this whole thing REALLY about the US Government losing access or more about them not wanting to expose their over-the-air code execution techniques?
Since presumably if they capture an already running device, they can just get the warrant, and ask the cellular network to send their specially crafted packet (which can unlock the phone, SMS the encryption key, or similar).
Sorry but if the Intelligence Services cannot unlock an encrypted device STILL RUNNING then I'll eat my hat.