Apple has added a new option to iOS that allows locked iPhones to automatically restart after a certain amount of time. Police forces are concerned about the feature as it would make it more difficult to unlock seized devices. That’s telling 404 Media based on the documents received. “Apple has added a feature called “inactivity restart” to iOS 18.1,” the researcher said Jiska’s classes from the Hasso Plattner Institute.
The feature ensures that a locked iPhone restarts automatically after a certain period of time. A phone can be in Before First Unlock (BFU) or After First Unlock (AFU) state. he is simpler to collect information from a phone in the state of AFU, according to the digital forensic laboratory of the Dakota State University. In the AFU state, the user has turned on their phone and unlocked the device at least once.
Turn off the iPhone, which puts the device in BFU state, the biggest mistake in iOS forensicsForensic software developer Elcomsoft warned four years ago. In BFU mode, all encryption keys are deleted from the device’s memory, getting the passcode is much slower than in AFU mode, biometric authentication is impossible, and several other limitations exist for researchers.
Police services often lock locked phones in a safe ‘faraday box’ or a place where the device cannot be accessed by the outside world, to prevent the owner from remotely wiping their device, for example. To prevent the phones from entering the BFU state, they are not turned off. The new iOS option ensures that locked phones, even in a locked location, will restart automatically. American police forces are now being warned about this.
“This is a fantastic and inexpensive discount. While most people don’t have to deal with their phone forensics, many others will have to deal with a stolen device. This protects consumers in each case,” therefore Class. Apple has yet to respond to the news about the new feature, reports say The Sea.
2024-11-10 08:43:00
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