Cellebrite (IL) outlines its phone hack tech in a copyright suit against competitor Oxygen (RU). https://cryptome.org/2016/03/cellebrite-oxygen-001.pdf According to the suit both firms sell phone hack tools to USG agencies. Suggests phone hacking is as lucrative as 0-days and bug bounties. Dirty-fingernailed hackers getting so celebrated they may become fancy barbered and removed-tats l0phties angling for photoshopped slick mag portraits with Naked Celeb Perps Assange, Snowden, Dotcom. At 11:31 AM 3/23/2016, you wrote:
FBI using Israeli firm Cellebrite to help break into San Bernardino terrorist's iPhone
By Roger Fingas
Wednesday, March 23, 2016, 07:04 am PT (10:04 am ET)
An Israeli forensic software company, Cellebrite, is helping the FBI try to unlock the iPhone 5c used by San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook, according to a national newspaper.
If the firm succeeds the FBI will be able to drop requests for help from Apple, reported Yedioth Ahronoth, as quoted by Reuters. The paper didn't say how Cellebrite was attempting to break into the phone, or what kind of progress it might be making.
More: http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/03/23/fbi-using-israeli-firm-cellebrite-...
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