Using This Phone Passcode Strategy Will Take The FBI 127 Years To Crack Your Encrypted DataBy Mac Slavo Earlier this week Apple CEO Tim Cook wrote an open letter to the American public about the FBIs attempts to compel the company to crack the iPhone of the San Bernardino Jihad attackers, saying that such a tool for the government is too dangerous to create.Google, Facebook and Twitter have now joined Apple in the phone encryption battle. As explained by The Intercept, heres a brief overview ofwhat the FBI wants Apple to do: The most obvious way to try and crack into your iPhone, and what the FBI is trying to do in the San Bernardino case, is to simply run through every possible passcode until the correct one is discovered and the phone is unlocked. This is known as a brute force attack. One obstacle to testing all possiblepasscodes is that the iPhone intentionally slows down after you guess wrong a few times. Anattacker cantry four incorrectpasscodes before shes forced to wait one minute. If she continues to guess wrong, the time delay increases to five minutes, 15minutes, and finally one hour. Theres even a setting to erase all data on the iPhone after 10wrong guesses. The problem the FBI has is that the iPhone and other phones out there require a time-delay between passcode entries. Moreover, when a series of wrong passcodes is entered the delay is extended to as muchas one hour, so even the fastest computer on the planet is rendered impotent while itwaits for thisdelay to reset. So the FBI is stuck using your iPhone to test passcodes. And it turns out that your iPhone is kind of slow at that: iPhones intentionally encrypt data in such a way that they must spend about80 milliseconds doing the math needed to test a passcode, according to Apple. That limits them to testing12.5 passcode guesses per second, which meansthat guessing a six-digit passcode would take, at most, just over 22 hours. A six-digit passcode can be unlocked by the FBI in roughly a day. But according to the math behind the security feature, adding just 5 more digits could make hacking the phone in your lifetime almost impossible with current computing technologies (well save quantum computing concepts for another time): What if you use a longer passcode? Heres how long the FBI would need: As The Intercept notes, remembering a totally random 11-digit passcode may seem like a daunting task, but anyone who was around before cell phone contact lists probably had at least five to ten different phone numbers memorized for family and close friends. This is essentially the same thing. As a side note,using your phones fingerprint scanner as the primary mechanism for security is not sufficient. First, a determined hacker, especially a state-sponsored one, could easily find a way to get your fingerprint, just as was done to Germanys Minister of Defence in 2014 when hackers used internet photos of her hand to re-create her fingerprint. Second, and perhaps more importantly, aVirginia court has ruledyou can be forced by police to unlock a phone or computer with your fingerprint but not your password: A Virginia state trial court held that a suspect cannot be compelled [by the police] to produce his passcode to access his smartphone but he can be compelled to produce his fingerprint to do the same. . Judge Frucci ruled that phone passwords were entitled to protection under the Fifth Amendments promise that no person shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself.He stressed that the password existed only in the defendants mind, and thus compelling the defendant to provide a passcode constituted a testimonial communication. The Fifth Amendment protects against such compulsion. We live in a brave new world, and while you may think you have nothing to hide, keep in mind that with the literal millions of laws on the books in the United Statesthe average American commits three felonies per day. Thus, if a law enforcement agency were to target you, they would most certainly find evidence of wrongdoing and you can be assured that your phone will be one of the first pieces of evidence they will target. Also Read: You can read more from Mac Slavo at his site SHTFplan.com Feb 19, 2016 Santa Clara County Hearing on Surveillance Reform Feb. 11, 2016 Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors Finance and Government Operations Committee hearing on a proposed surveillance reform ordinance. EFF Director of Grassroots Advocacy Shahid Buttar speaks during public comment. https://youtu.be/xBejdoSgWwA FEBRUARY 16, 2016 EFF to Support Apple in Encryption Battle We learned on Tuesday evening that a U.S. federal magistrate judge ordered Apple to backdoor an iPhone that was used by one of the perpetrators of the San Bernardino shootings in December. Apple is fighting the order which would compromise the security of all its users around the world. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/02/eff-support-apple-encryption-battle 500 Years of History Shows that Mass Spying Is Always Aimed at Crushing Dissent *Its Never to Protect Us From Bad Guys*, No matter which government conducts mass surveillance, they also do it to crush dissent, and then give a false rationale for why theyre doing it. http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/01/government-spying-citizens-always-focuses-crushing-dissent-keeping-us-safe.html I think you need to be pretty naive to think this is about getting the data off one phone. Do you really believe that the full resources of the US government are unable to get the data off a device they have in their possession? Of course they can. This is about publicly getting people to understand that they cant keep anything secret from their mighty owners and masters. They want you to know this and passively accept it. 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