FBI is asking an Israeli company to unlock iPhone

(Baonghean.vn) - Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported on March 23 that Israel Cellebrite, a mobile phone software provider, is helping the US Federal Bureau of Investigation - FBI in its efforts to unlock the iPhone involved 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 obtain data from mobile devices and developing technology for mobile phone retailers.

Currently, a representative of Cellebrite company 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.

According to the plan, the two sides had a meeting in court on Tuesday, March 22. However, on March 21, the DOJ officially sent a request to postpone the trial with Apple to 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)