A second iPhone unlocking company has just entered the market. A startup called Grayshift is advertising a tool called “GrayKey,” which costs $15,000 for an always-online version limited to 300 uses. An unlimited offline edition is priced at $30,000. Grayshift is said to be staffed by U.S. intelligence agency contractors and a former Apple security […]
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Last last week, the source code for iBoot, a core component of iOS, was leaked to GitHub. Although the code was older, designed for iOS 9, it was quickly yanked from GitHub following Apple’s issuance of a DCMA takedown notice. Per Motherboard, which contacted unnamed sources involved in the leaks and investigated screenshots, text messages, […]
There’s some cool stuff inside the new 2016 MacBook Pro. The new 13-inch and 15-inch Touch Bar-equipped MacBook Pro notebooks feature both an Intel processor and an Apple-designer T1 chip, which is also found inside the new Series 2 Apple Watch. As noted by Apple in its keynote, the T1 processor handles security for the […]
There’s some cool stuff going on with the iPhone 5s’ new A7 processor. Per an analysis published by Chipworks, the A7 contains assorted changes from the previous A6 processor, including the addition of a mysterious SRAM cell never seen in A-series silicon. Continuing its comprehensive investigation of the new A7 SoC, which on Tuesday confirmed […]