Hackers say they cracked Apple’s T2 Secure Enclave chip

Apple has long made much of their Secure Enclave Processor in their iPhones and more recently Macbooks’ but today hackers announced an “unpatchable” exploit for the processor which theoretically could give them full control over devices protected by the chips, including decrypting sensitive data. The exploit combines two earlier vulnerabilities (heckm8 and Blackbird) used to jailbreak iPhones, with the hack allowing them to run code inside the T2 security chip at boot time.

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