FBI is asking an Israeli company to unlock iPhone

(Baonghean.vn) - Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported on March 23 that Israel's Cellebrite, a mobile phone software provider, is helping the US Federal Bureau of Investigation - FBI in its efforts to unlock the iPhone used in the San Bernardino, California massacre.

A New York police officer sets up barricades outside an Apple store in New York on March 23.

Cellebrite is a subsidiary of Sun Corp, Japan, operating in two main areas: building software to support legal systems used by law enforcement, military, and intelligence agencies to retrieve data from mobile devices and developing technology for mobile phone retailers.

Currently, a representative of the company Cellebrite refused to comment on whether the iPhone could be hacked or not.

Apple is embroiled in a lawsuit with the US Department of Justice (DOJ) over a US court order requiring the company to write new software to disable the security code on the iPhone of the massacre perpetrator.

The two sides were scheduled to meet in court on Tuesday, March 22. However, on March 21, the DOJ officially sent a request to postpone the trial with Apple until April 5 to test a new method of "hacking" the iPhone.

Cellebrite's involvement could bring a surprising end to the high-profile lawsuit between Apple and the DOJ over data privacy in the United States.

Thanh Hien

(According to Reuters)