“When running the GrayKey, users have various options around what sort of data they want to collect from a linked iOS device or how they want to extract it, the instructions show. Those include extracting metadata for inaccessible files, and "immediate extraction when SE-bound passcode," presumably referring to the Secure Enclave, the part of iOS devices that stores sensitive material such as passcodes.

One section of the instructions also describes how to brute force an alphanumeric passcode. Many iPhone users have purely numerical passcodes, only made up of numbers. An alphanumeric passcode also uses letters, so has more characters options, and can generally be more resilient to brute force attempts if it uses a random series of characters. If the device uses an alphanumeric passcode containing real words however, that may make cracking the passcode easier thanks to word lists; long lists of human readable words.

"An alphanumeric passcode on Apple Mobile Device will be automatically detected by GrayKey and require additional actions by the analyst," the instructions read. The instructions say that the analyst will have the option to use the default wordlist called "crackstation-human-only.txt," perhaps referring to a wordlist released by the password security website Crackstation. That archive includes around 1.5 billion words. The instructions say GrayKey users can also import their own custom wordlists, but only one wordlist can be loaded at a time.

"If the brute force agent has successfully installed, Airplane mode will be activated, and the Apple mobile device can be disconnected or remain connected to the GrayKey unit for data extraction," the instructions read.

As part of a feature called HideUI, GrayKey also allows agencies to install the agent which surreptitiously records the user's passcode if authorities hand their phone back to them, NBC News reported.”

https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/k7835w/how-to-brute-force-iphones-graykey?

🚨 🚨 WORKERS AT VOODO DOUGHNUT GO ON STRIKE! ⚙️💥 🚨 🚨

https://www.wweek.com/news/business/2021/06/28/voodoo-doughnut-workers-go-on-strike-claiming-sweaty-shop-conditions/

In this month’s read-at-work series... Jane McAlevey’s No Shortcuts is a straightforward guide to organizing. As someone who has gone through the IWW’s organizer training, this is the next best thing. Great for reading through while you’re in the bathroom at work, and goes over all the different steps of putting together an effective union. Broken into short chapters with plenty of pictures and graphs for easy reading.

Jane #McAlevey - No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age

#podcast - The Anti-Capitalist Chronicles by David Harvey

The Legitimation Crisis of the Late 1960s

The Birth of Neoliberalism

The Urbanization of China

Dumping Surplus Capital