John McAfee talked about how to properly crack the protection of the iPhone.

Yes, he doesn’t have an iPhone

On February 19, McAfee founder, presidential candidate, information security specialist John McAfee decided to help the FBI extract the encrypted information from the phone of a terrorist who killed and injured dozens of people (the perpetrator did not act alone). He said that, together with his team, he would be able to hack the phone in three weeks. Otherwise, McAfee promised to eat his shoes online.

“Here is my suggestion for the FBI. I will decode information for free from San Bernadino’s phone from my companies. We will use mainly social engineering, and it will take us three weeks. If you accept my proposal, then you do not need to ask Apple to place a backdoor in your product, which will mark the beginning of the end of America, ”McAfee said in February. Now it turned out that he was not going to crack the iPhone of a terrorist. John McAfee claims that he lied deliberately, to attract public attention to the actions of the FBI.

“By doing this, I knew that I would receive a huge amount of public attention, which happened in the end. This video, on my YouTube account, has collected about 700,000 views. I consider it necessary to show the American citizens that the FBI is trying to deceive them. How else could I say this? No one would listen. Therefore, I made a sensation, ”said McAfee.
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At the same time, the businessman claims that he can crack the iPhone, and without much difficulty. Here is a video where he tells how to hack the iPhone.



And here you can listen to his interview with The Daily Dot.

John said that a hardware engineer and a software engineer are needed to break iPhone encryption. The first engineer must disassemble and copy a set of instructions, i.e. applications and memory. Then the disassembler starts. After this, the software specialist must find the first function call that activates the password request. Once the call is found, you can find out where the secret code is stored in memory. According to McAfee, all this should take only half an hour.

So far it is unclear whether McAfee believes what he said, or whether he again "draws attention to the problem." But, as you know, iOS does not store passwords in its own memory, and even in clear text. Maybe John is not aware of how modern encryption methods work?

Whatever it was, but the attention of the public McAfee really attracted, and even what. But, of course, there is still the question of whether he will still have his own shoes or not. He did not hack the phone ...