Unscrambling an Android Telephone With FROST 55
Noryungi writes "Researchers at the University of Erlangen demonstrate how to recover an Android phone's confidential content, with the help of a freezer and FROST, a specially-crafted Android ROM. Quite an interesting set of pictures, starting with wrapping your Android phone in a freezer bag."
Re:Amazing! (Score:5, Insightful)
I guess the point is that this is an unnecessary hole in the security. The boot loader should not load anything without first wiping the RAM. The attack depends on the ability to boot into fastboot mode, which is then used for flashing a new recovery ROM, and that is booted as well without clearing the RAM. There is no normal situation where a booting system should have access to the previous RAM contents, so wiping the RAM first thing in the boot loader is a safe thing to do.
Re:Why do freezers always seem to help recover dat (Score:4, Insightful)