Even John McAfee has spoken publicly and explained how unlocking the iPhone is 'trivial.' In an interview with Russia Today, McAfee detailed the brief process.
If the government already has its own access to the iPhone, then the FBI's chosen "debate" with Apple is an exercise in wearing down public resistance to the surveillance state.I am going to tell the world exactly how we do this. Now I'll probably lose my admission to the world hackers' community, however I want to tell you. You need a hardware engineer and a softer engineer. The hardware engineer takes the phone apart, and copies the instruction set, which are the iOS and applications and your memory. And then you run a program called a disassembler, which takes all the ones and zeros and gives you readable instructions. Then the coder sits down and he reads through. What he is looking for is the first access to the keypad, because that is the first thing you do, when you input your pad. It'll take half an hour. When you see that then he reads the instructions for where in memory this secret code is stored - it is that trivial - a half an hour.
What Americans are likely witnessing as the Apple vs. FBI debacle escalates is little more than a propaganda campaign to force them to surrender privacy for ostensible security.
A video, uploaded by the Facebook page SoFlo this week, provides even more evidence that the FBI's public chest pumping is merely a charade. In the short video, the speaker explains a series of steps which allows anyone, not just advanced hackers, the ability to unlock another person's iPhone.
With the release of this video, Apple will surely send out an update to patch this vulnerability. However, millions of people, including the FBI, are able to do this right now — proving that the FBI's intentions have ulterior motives.
I trilled this on 4 different iPhones and not one worked. It appears he tricked us by using his finger to unlock the iPhone as he opened Siri. I can reproduce the exact way he shows only if certain apps are open behind the lock screen and I use my finger on the sly to unlock.
By the way I work in Mac IT and repair hardware and software on iPhones, iPads, Macs & PCs for a living.