@ Ian Michael Gumby
The last point you made about soldering is a bit of an irrelevance, but your first two points are accurate I think. $1m not for pressing a button, but for knowing which button to press; and because $1m is less than the cost of a legal battle with Apple.
To say this new method is a $100 attack rather undervalues Mr Skorobogatov's 4 months of work to achieve it, not to mention the level of prior expertise he must have achieved to even embark on it.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
