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by nroize 63 days ago
I couldn’t find any reference to File Vault being cracked in the Rawls case. Source?

Edit: I saw they accessed his Mac but they had his password. File Vault 2 wasn’t bypassed, and afaik has never been cracked.

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Why crack it when you have silicon level backdoors?
In T2? Source?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Triangulation

iirc this was a register level exploit. no software in iOS or macOS touched the undisclosed register, but when the right secret key was entered, you got full read/write primitives on the silicon