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The Feds Can Now (Probably) Unlock Every iPhone Model In Existence

Posted on February 26, 2018 by pogowasright.org

Thomas Fox-Brewster reports:

In what appears to be a major breakthrough for law enforcement, and a possible privacy problem for Apple customers, a major U.S. government contractor claims to have found a way to unlock pretty much every iPhone on the market.

Cellebrite, a Petah Tikva, Israel-based vendor that’s become the U.S. government’s company of choice when it comes to unlocking mobile devices, is this month telling customers its engineers currently have the ability to get around the security of devices running iOS 11.

Read more on Forbes.

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