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They conclude that there's no wireless component to the feature.

This feature is not at all related to wireless activity. The law enforcement document's conclusion that the reboot is due to phones wirelessly communicating with each other is implausible. The older iPhones before iOS 18 likely rebooted due to another reason, such as a software bug.

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If you think about it, if the attacker is sophisticated enough to break the phone within a 72 hour window, then they are definitely sophisticated enough to use a faraday container. So communication between phones wouldn't help very much.

Moreover, you'd have to have some inhibitory signal to prevent everybody's phones restarting in a crowded environment, but any such signal could be spoofed.

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