Who can hack an iPhone for the FBI? Clues point to Cellebrite in Israel

[steve2470]

http://mashable.com/2016/03/25/fbi-iphone-cellebrite/#4wpRgbZ7w5qH

The FBI has been trying to hack into the iPhone used by the San Bernardino shooter for months. But this week, when the Justice Department suddenly announced that a mysterious "outside party" was helping investigators access the data, security experts wondered who might be capable of cracking Apple's encryption.

Now, all eyes are on an Israeli cybersecurity company whose past connections and recent movements suggest it may be the FBI's white knight.

Israeli newspaper Yedioth Aharonot reported Wednesday that the unidentified party is Cellebrite, based just outside Tel Aviv. But the FBI and Cellebrite have refused to confirm any relationship. And on Thursday, unnamed law enforcement officials speaking on background to USA Today squashed reports of a partnership.

Mashable has learned, however, that the company's executive vice president for mobile forensics, Leeor Ben-Peretz, spent the last few days in the United States. According to a person who recently worked with the company and who spoke on condition of anonymity, Ben-Peretz is Cellebrite's top executive who would demonstrate its forensics capabilities.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

2. The iphone is manufactured in China,

just saying?

[JI7]

3. this will excite the tin foil crowd

[Logical]

4. Apple needs to make the iPhone unbreakable. nt

[Jitter65]

5. Apple should be ashamed to have brought us to this. The consequence will be worse than if

they had cooperated with the FBI.

A company that makes its product outside the US to gain cheap labor and obscene profits while at the same time keeping it prices to domestic consumers unreasonably high, potentially holds the safety and security of many Americans in the palm of their grubby hands.