[Swordmaker]

There's a guy on another thread (drift diver) on this subject who claims he "an IT Security company which does computer forensics."

And getting the iPhone data is easy because he does "Things like pulling data off phones and hard drives." And 'I don't need the password to copy the data. I can copy the device or copy the file system or the file. I don't even need to go through the Operating system.'

So he can get the iPhone data no sweat. I think he's another magic thinker. Older Phones, older OSs he might be right but not this phone, not this OS. I say not password, no access, else this whole thing would be a non-issue.

Well, PIF, he's right that you CAN copy the raw data off the iPhone's SSD memory. But that doesn't do much good for anyone if that iPhone is running iOS 8 or later. Especially if the iPhone is an iPhone 5s, 6, 6plus, 6S or 6S plus. If the user has locked the iOS device with even the basic four digit passcode, that data will be encrypted with a 256 bit AES encryption with a KEY of at least 132 characters in length which is extremely complex.

The key to the encryption is created the first time by combining those 132 characters of the with a random number generated by combining data from the microphone, accelerometer, camera, GPS, and other sensors of the iPhone during the boot up, to provide the other half of the encryption key.

These two halves of the encryption key are stored in the Secure Enclave of the iOS device's Processor where it cannot be accessed from outside of the processor at all. Thus all deciphering of the data stored on the SSD of the device has to be done by the processor of the device.

If driftdiver thinks he's succeeded in copying data, he is sadly deluding himself and has wasted the effort. Merely copying what is on the SSD will accomplish nothing but copying a bunch of useless garbage!

[driftdiver]

Which is what I said smarty pants.

PIF its common courtesy to ping people when you talk about them.