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Re: The next time someone tells you "no one" would do something...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Tue Dec 9 11:05:58 2008
From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:21:15 +1300
"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> writes:
>Summary: shops in Vietnam removing the baseband chip on iPhone motherboards
>to reprogram and unlock them.
>From someone who knows about these things:
They got this a little wrong -- he's actually removing the stacked die
NOR/PSRAM, erasing and reprogramming to a version that is vulnerable to the
SIM proxy attack. It's not really any big deal.
Peter.
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