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Bricked iPhone 16 Can Restore Firmware Wirelessly by Using a Nearby iPhone (www.mactrast.com)
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[–] hemmes@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago

Neither the MacTrast nor the original 9to5 article discusses the security behind Apple's iOS implementation. But we know all firmware packages are signed and I would imagine this would be no different, with the recovery partition OS performing a check of the signature.