Apple’s T2 security chip has an unfixable bug

Stefan Mileschin · 14th October 2020, 08:04

Shedloads of threats

While Apple’s T2 security chip appears mostly to help Jobs’ Mob control its Walled Garden of delights, it apparently is not very good at security.

A recently released tool is letting anyone use a bug in the chip to bypass it and gain system access.The flaw is one that researchers have been using for more than a year to jailbreak older models of iPhones, but the fact the T2 chip is vulnerable in the same way creates a new host of potential threats.

And what is bad for Apple is that the flaw is ultimately unfixable in every Mac that has a T2 under the bonnet. The flaw is in low-level, unchangeable code for hardware.

Apple added the T2 as a trusted mechanism for securing high-value features like encrypted data storage, Touch ID, and Activation Lock, which works with Apple's "Find My" services.
https://fudzilla.com/news/pc-hardwar...-unfixable-bug

14th October 2020, 08:04	#1
Stefan Mileschin [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania Posts: 148,618	Apple’s T2 security chip has an unfixable bug Shedloads of threats While Apple’s T2 security chip appears mostly to help Jobs’ Mob control its Walled Garden of delights, it apparently is not very good at security. A recently released tool is letting anyone use a bug in the chip to bypass it and gain system access.The flaw is one that researchers have been using for more than a year to jailbreak older models of iPhones, but the fact the T2 chip is vulnerable in the same way creates a new host of potential threats. And what is bad for Apple is that the flaw is ultimately unfixable in every Mac that has a T2 under the bonnet. The flaw is in low-level, unchangeable code for hardware. Apple added the T2 as a trusted mechanism for securing high-value features like encrypted data storage, Touch ID, and Activation Lock, which works with Apple's "Find My" services. https://fudzilla.com/news/pc-hardwar...-unfixable-bug

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