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iPhones stored for forensic analysis unexpectedly reboot, causing problems for officials
(appleinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 08 Nov 2024
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Because they have no actual proof of it, and direct evidence against it. They talk about phones communicating with each other to restart... yet a phone inside a faraday box restarted.
It's almost certainly just a software bug in iOS which is why it's inconsistent.
A remote command from some random phone to reboot does sound like the a wonderful vector for malware, though