Explaining Phone Security Vulnerabilities

So, I'm going to tell the world exactly how we do this.

Now, I'll probably lose my admission to the world hackers community, however, I'm going

to tell you.

These devices are computers, whether it's an Android phone, an iOS phone, or whatever.

Inside is a processor, which is a computer, the instruction set, which is the iOS and

all the applications that you run, and the memory in which you store your data.

You need a hardware engineer and a software engineer.

The hardware engineer takes the phone apart, and it copies the instruction set, which is

the iOS and applications, and your memory.

And then you run a piece of a program called a disassembler, which takes all the ones and

zeros and gives you readable instructions.

Then, the coder sits down and he reads through, and what he's looking for is the first access

to the keypad, because that's the first thing you're doing when you input your pad.

It'll take half an hour.

When you see that, then he reads the instructions for where in memory this secret code is stored.

It is that trivial, a half an hour.

The FBI knows this, Apple knows this, and this is not an indictment of Apple.

Any computer, and this is a computer, any computer that falls into someone's hands,

well, anybody can do it, which is why corporate data centers keep their computers locked up,

and which is why we ought to keep our own phones locked up.

It's not an indictment of Apple.

Any computer, any software, whether it's Android, Apple, or what have you, can be done.

We can do this with any machine, and it is a half hour job.

The FBI knows this, and if it does not, we are in deep trouble, deep trouble, because

it should know this.

Now, in either case, if they don't know it, well, that's tragic.

If they do know it, then they are deceiving the American public and Apple and everyone

else by asking for a universal key.

So, in either case, we are in deep trouble in America.

Please, get a clue here.

Now, I have just told all of America and the whole world how it's done.

It is trivial.

It is trivial.

I'm sorry it's that trivial, but it is.

The FBI needs to get its act together and tell the truth, saying, yeah, we need it because

we want to spy on Americans.

Cool.

Let's talk about that, but please don't try to deceive us by pretending we're idiots.

We aren't.

I just explained to you, and I'm sure you understood it, and your entire audience understood

the simplicity of getting access to that secret code.