This Robot is Brute-Forcing an iPhone

The robot will try all possible 4-digit passwords on an iPhone.

Seen at Black Hat 2013.

Best Use I Can See

It’s not elegant, but it would work. Grab a phone off the street, return to a secure location, put it under the robot, wait.

You’d need a location though, and time. And it’d be a targeted attack; you’d be after the information on the phone, not the phone itself. Otherwise, just wipe it.

Defences

– turn OFF simple passcode. Then you can have a longer passcode, with alphanumeric characters
– turn ON “after 10 failed password attempts this iPhone will wipe itself”
– don’t use any of these – Most Common iPhone Passwords
– hang onto your phone tight, but not like this this

Sorry, that’s all I know; saw it en route to the car hacking talk.

So if this robot belongs to you, email me and I’ll link you up, and any explanation you’d like to add.

 

 

Got Stuck in Some PVC Pipe Yesterday

It started in the plumbing section of Lowe’s, pretending to be a robot.

Everything went west when I made robot fingers.

We put grease everywhere, created a shim, nothing.  The Lowe’s guys stayed gentlemanly.  Actually, if roles reversed, I’d probably have made more fun of me.

The final solution was a hacksaw, between the silver piece and the tube, pink arrow.

I was making a video during the sawing, and of all the times for my phone to freeze. Also, now I know PVC gets really hot when you saw it.

This was worse than when I invented, ‘Tactical Jewelry‘, aka, ‘Budget Cartier Love Ring’.

I am so dumb.