Re: Not really comparable
Re: "Not so amateur"
What you offer as 'proof' says that he's an academic, not a professional forensic technician.
As I wrote previously, the constraints of an actual, high-profile forensic investigation of a very high-profile, high-value piece of evidence are vastly different than what a guy tinkering in his home lab (while probably destroying many phones in the process) are under. Has nothing to do with his smarts or abilities, has everything to do with A) being able to guarantee success within a certain timeframe, and B) being able to guarantee that even if he doesn't succeed, he doesn't destroy the evidence in the process.
For every Skorobogatov that proudly announces he's come up with a successful hack, there are probably at least 100 people that tried and failed. Which one of those 100 should the FBI have hired instead of Cellebrite or whoever they did hire? John McAfee? :D
And how much was it worth it for them to have an answer in March, rather than waiting 6 months for the tinkerer to come up with a successful hack?
Skorobogatov claims it took him 4 months, but it's nearly 10 months since the FBI got their hands on Farook's iphone.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
