However, right after his video surfaced online, Apple, as well as many other researchers were taking notice. People were skeptical about his conclusions and the testing method. Will Strafach, CEO Sudo Security Group, said in his tweet,
https://twitter.com/chronic/status/1010292033670479872
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Stefan Esser, a German security researcher and the CEO of Antid0te, also expressed his observation in his tweet.
https://twitter.com/i0n1c/status/1010279259376640005
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Eventually, Apple confirmed in a statement to Apple Insider, that the so-called hack was nothing but ‘incorrect testing’.
“The recent report about a passcode bypass on iPhone was in error, and a result of incorrect testing.”It was revealed that the software simply ‘shows’ as if the passcodes are being tested after receiving a long string input. But, as explained by Stefan Esser, the device simply ignores all other codes after a testing a few initially. And, it will continue to do so until the string is broken. And, as we know, after the break, the input will be the second attempt. Thus, there seems to be no erase-data glitch as reported by Hickey.
https://twitter.com/hackerfantastic/status/1010631766087032832
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He also said ‘sorry’ to the people in another tweet.
https://twitter.com/hackerfantastic/status/1010699899682213888
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Although Hickey’s findings didn’t prove fruitful (for hackers), he succeeded in alerting the security team at Apple who did take serious notice of the potential flaw and responded accordingly.
