They “unlocked” a terrorist’s TWO Apple iPhones...or claim to have done so, after the company refused to do so. Big news.
The broken open the iPhone? I doubt it.
Unless they accessed the terrorist’s iCloud account, or the idiot used an easy 4-digit passcode, or had some old iOS version. Maybe then.
If they hacked the Secure Enclave and local key, this would be major news.If they broke 256-bit AES key encryption in less than several trillion years they were really lucky or it would mean a Nobel Prize in Math type accomplishment.
I hope it was a compromised device, side-channel attack or some other legerdemain.
If not, then I fear Apple is lying when they say they don’t have your passcode or key and there’s no way to bypass needing the local key to access your local data.
Maybe Apple has a secret way to defeat the incorrect guess time delay and 10 guesses lockout.
There was such a way at one time, used to crack the CA terrorists phone IIRC, but didn’t Apple close that loophole?