[Moltke]

I thought this was supposed to take trillions and trillions of years, not 4 weeks.

[MarchonDC09122009]

Apple iPhone superiority PING ;n)

[i_robot73]

It appears, the Sony PS3 has been the longest hack hold-out, in my recollection. That took ~2 yrs. before being broken.

I’m sure, with the NSA back-door, the iPhone was child’s play compared /s

[PA-RIVER]

Gay phone has Back door.

[Flick Lives]

42 paragraphs into the article...

Bekrar said Zerodium is testing the vulnerabilities to make sure the exploit meets the competition rules, meaning the prize money has yet to be paid.

So it's a million dollar prize, but it's not been paid, and likely never will.

[Swordmaker]

Someone is claiming to have found a way to remotely jailbreak an iOS 9.1 device. . . however, since this exploit requires browsing to a specific website, downloading a specific file, or triggering a specific WEB BASED event, it still requires user involvement. At most, this is merely a means of jailbreaking iOS 9.

What this is NOT, is that it is NOT a way of breaking into an iOS device without cooperation of the user or socially engineering the user into navigating to a malicious website.

It does NOT break into an iPhone or iPad without the cooperation of the user, nor can a person without the passcode get into the iPhone or iPad get into someone's data by stealing their device and somehow using this exploit to break into it after the theft. It does NOT get around the encryption of the device. That would not work.

This reward from Zerodium is NOT the reward that is still being offered by The Hacker Team, which is the professional organization that sells tools to law enforcement organizations including the NSA, CIA, FBI, etc, to allow them to break into mobile devices, to also allow them to break into an iOS device in hand to access a locked iOS device, which is something they currently do not have the capability to accomplish. — PING!

Apple iOS Security
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[Swordmaker]

I thought this was supposed to take trillions and trillions of years, not 4 weeks.

This is not the same thing at all, Moltke. This does not crack the encryption of iOS devices or iCloud files. This is merely a jailbreaking of iOS devices that still requires the cooperation of a user who already has access to the device to either do it deliberately, or to be tricked into navigating to a malicious website which includes malicious code which will be executed in the browser. This will be blocked fairly quickly from working. It does NOT, in any way, decrypt the 256 bit AES encrypted files, because it cannot. If the user either deliberately or through trickery allows the bad guys access, does not mean they've broken the encryption.