A little over a year ago when in the city of San Bernardino, California, two alleged jihaidists attacked in a terrorist act against 14 innocents, a very notorious attack due to all the consequences it brought with it to the technological world. And is that one of the attackers had a iPhone with him and after being shot down the FBI tried by all means to unlock the device to try to obtain the data he had and thus try to trace the origin of the attack. Something quite controversial since the unlocking had to be done carefully to avoid self-erasing, if this self-erasing was activated to prevent unlocks due to the accumulation of wrong passwords.
El FBI turned to Apple to try to unlock the iPhone claiming national security issues, but ran into the Apple's refusal, there is no way to unlock the device if the password is not known, they themselves confirmed that they could not access the information of any iPhone without the corresponding credentials. And this is something that the guys from Cupertino Keynote have told us after Keynote, iDevices are safe, and the fact that Apple could access the device compromised this information ... But we already know how all this works, the FBI gave the device to an alleged Israeli company capable of unlocking these devices, and today we know what the operation cost ...
And it seems that the Democratic Senator Dianne feinstein has publicly stated that the government paid 900,000 dollars for break shooter iPhone security of San Bernardino. A figure close to one million three hundred thousand dollars that was speculated at first. Of course, he has also stated that in the operation the FBI would protect the identity of the third party capable of unlocking.
Una pretty controversial security since in this case it entered within moral values, but from my point of view, Apple's move is obvious, since if it could have been unlocked, the security of the iDevices would be seriously questioned…
Hi Karim, with all due respect, you should take care of where you get the information, it cannot be that the FBI gave the iPhone 5C to an Israeli company that charged $ 900,000 for unlocking them if the machine used for that purpose costs about $ 15.000. It is true that this device is manufactured by an Israeli company and that each update costs a penny (but not more than the device). This company is called cellebrite like its device and you can find photos of the device on the net.
This is their website:
http://www.cellebrite.com