The FBI pays $ 15.000 to an Israeli company to unlock the iPhone from the attacks

Apple-FBI-Celebrate

The soap opera between the FBI and Apple seems to have no end since the issue continues to be talked about, although according to the latest news it seems that the FBI has stopped trying to convince the Cupertino to unlock the device used by one of the terrorists in the attacks last December in San Bernardino.

Last Tuesday Apple had an appointment in a court of law to expose the reasons why it refuses to unlock the iPhone 5c used by the terrorists, but one day before the date the FBI decided to cancel the appointment which originated a good number of speculations in this regard.

The main reason for the FBI to cancel this hearing would be because either had already signed in or was about to sign in thanks to one of the many companies that have offered to unlock the device. Of all the companies that have offered, the one that attracts the most attention was McAfee, which through its founder, John McAfee assured that in just 30 minutes he was able to access the content stored inside, bypassing Apple's password protection. .

But apparently the FBI did not select this company for that purpose, but traveled to Israel to the Cellebrite company breaks the protection and allows access to all the content of the terminal of one of the terrorists. According to Reuters, the FBI has reached an agreement with Cellebrite to hack the iPhone 5c in exchange for just over $ 15.000. As we can see the image above, the date on which the FBI hired this service was precisely March 21, the date on which the FBI dismissed the hearing that Apple had planned before the judge.

$ 15.000 is a lot of money to unlock a single iPhone, so this Israeli company most likely provide the necessary software so that the FBI can unlock any device locked by code.


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  1.   Caesar Salad said

    I think the title is wrong. The one that pays (according to your text) is the FBI, not Appple.

    1.    Ignatius Hall said

      Sure. A slip that was coupled with haste. Modified. Thanks for the warning.

      1.    Caesar Salad said

        Sorry for everything generated. I didn't think that correcting a word would cause such a stir 🙁

        1.    Caesar Salad said

          Cause. *

  2.   Aitor flames said

    HAHAHAHAJ brutal Popi

  3.   Louis V said

    1 - Badly worded title
    2 - sources? You are affirming everything you comment, which is something that you like to do a lot on this website, but as always without giving sources or any type of reliable information on which you rely.

    1.    anonimous said

      I have been saying it for a long time but I already gave up that criticizing this blog was of no use, a lot of publicity especially in its videos, bad interface of the blog, with some editors lack of sources and arguments, in some articles you can see that they believe they are divine Stay with the editors who make this passion and desire in the Apple world.

    2.    Ignatius Hall said

      The correct title was wrong.
      Regarding the sources. Have you read the article correctly? It says the source is REUTERS.

  4.   Louis V said

    If I had not read it, I would not have corrected you ... as the source news says, this has not been confirmed anywhere, so since you do not belong to the FBI or the Israeli company itself, I do not find the sense of affirming data in news that have not been confirmed. You should learn to use the conditional tense a bit, especially when much of the news you publish is based on hearsay. And for the record, I am not referring specifically to this news, but to practically all those that are made on the web ... there is a news story with a rumor about something, and with the titles and wording that you do, you confirm it.

    1.    ios 5 forever said

      That the source is Reuters!

      1.    Louis V said

        And give him that the source is Reuters ... ..that yes, tiresome. What I am saying is that the companies in question have not confirmed that it is the famous sniper iPhone, and that they are giving news everywhere affirming it.

  5.   eldioni said

    I love how you delete people's comments to create custom posts for you, live the page's freedom of expression, with commentators like this, the page loses a lot