When John McAfee told the world how to crack any phone (precisely).

Crack any phone in 30 minutes. John McAfee

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[dikshantwalia]

"If ever i died in jail just remember it wasn't a suicide" RIP legend

[Iamtheman]

Such a wealthy man could have just remained quiet, lived a beautiful handsome life in wealth. But instead he shared what he knew even if it meant the end for him someday. He shared to the world!! It takes a certain kind to man to do that!

[JoSchmo]

I hate the fact that I didn’t know more about this man and his work while he was still “alive.”

[jonathannuamah]

I thought he was straight up going to crack the phone by dropping it as a joke.

[jeanpierre]

Confusing the word iOS and Operating systems, confusing instruction sets and operating systems, the belief that CPUs can be removed and contain RAM, the belief that somehow a decompiler a program can be used to decompile a ARM CPU which is silicon and in 30 minutes no less, the belief that CPUs store Operating systems, the confusion between an executable, disk storage and memory, forgetting that encryption is a thing in 2021, the belief that the “hacker community” is a secret club instead of a bunch of drama queen who complains on Twitter and make blog posts for any reasons. The beliefs that the people working on the security of apple products are dorks who don’t know their jobs, and that anyone can develop exploits which can be sold for millions on the market and it only takes 30 minutes.
Yeaaah classic McAfee.

[roeskilove]

The youngins don’t actually know he was the guru of phone security at one time and a inside player himself. He never did fit in their circle and made some mistakes back in the day. That’s when they started planning his future. Don’t get it twisted, just like when we were kids, you either kick the bullies ass or you avoid him. You never play with the bullies, that’s dumb. They’re always up to something. Godspeed!

[mistersimple]

Words can cause death.
He's the proof ☝🏻

[capsitan]

The "coder" is apparently also a day trader.

[southerntrendkiller]

The real problem is the people that say “it’s fine, let them spy, I’m not doing anything wrong”.

[PiercingSight]

That’s now how that works at all.

Even if it were that easy to disassemble the phone and scan its contents without destroying or compromising them (not easy at all), the passcode isn’t stored anywhere, at least not in plaintext. And it’s definitely not even stored in hashed form if the phone itself is encrypted (which it was).

This man is spouting nonsense.

[paaao]

If your phone is encrypted, there's no way to pull your password out.

Also, I doubt that your unlock code is going to be stored in accessible memory. It's going to be hashed just like any password so it can't be reverse engineered back out of the software.

Most people don't encrypt, and a LOT of people use their face for the password. So you just tie em to a chair and point their phone at their face, and you're in.

[Simplicity]

That's absolute nonsense. Modern devices don't just store your password somewhere in memory. Usually your phone's data is symmetrically encrypted on the flash. For decryption, you need to get the key. The key is of course not placed somewhere next to it, but derived from your pass code as well as usually some hardware specific additional data and is asymmetrically encrypted and stored in a dedicated area on the SoC. Apple's marketing term hereof is Secure Enclave. Snapdragon SoCs have that as well. There are sophisticated techniques to try and access data on a running and unlocked phone, but a phone which did not yet get unlocked at boot time and doesn't have decrypted data in RAM is almost impossible to hack nowadays. Of course there may be back doors the public doesn't know about (yet), that is a valid concern.

[lwandilemakubalo]

Such information would sure put one on Governments radar.

[FilipinoHODL]

There’s this thing we call Cryptography.

[liberty-matrix]

"We are rapidly approaching an era where people vs government becomes a worldwide phenomenon." ~ John McAfee

[joshuhlman]

Wild man who couldn't be tamed. Rest in Peace.

[soggytoast]

FYI, it doesn't work this way anymore. Ten years ago yes it was that easy, but the technology has evolved specifically to defeat these kinds of attacks.

You can't just desolder the chip and download a binary image off of it, everything is encrypted with keys that are stored inside of the CPU. And it's specifically done this way to make what he said impossible.

Also the keypad code that you enter to unlock the phone isn't just some number floating around in memory, like everything else it's encrypted and obfuscated.

[junoeclipse]

Whenever somebody says "I'm probably going to be for saying this, but I'm going to say it because I'm brave!" You're probably about to hear some bullshit

[FlorianWendelborn]

There's so much nonsense in this video that I have to conclude that McAfee was just trying to find out if anyone was actually listening to what he said. I refuse to believe the de facto inventor of antivirus software doesn't understand what an instruction set is and that encryption and secure elements exist…

[heroclixrz]

Simpletons: "omg he's a genius!"
REs: didn't say anything."