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> Isn't that why the FBI made such a big fuss about Apple not "cooperating" to backdoor devices? They did a hell of a spin job grandstanding about the "imposs
by jstarfish 8y ago
> Isn't that why the FBI made such a big fuss about Apple not "cooperating" to backdoor devices?
They did a hell of a spin job grandstanding about the "impossibility" of cracking iPhones (protip: it never has been), but the FBI only made a stink about it because they can't crack the phones without paying Cellebrite a ton of money to develop new 0-days, which in the end is exactly what they ended up having to do. If Apple would factory-backdoor the things, the FBI could crack them themselves.
Every LE department has been handing seized iPhones over to Cellebrite for years for important enough cases. LE don't want to have to rely on a third-party (and foreign) contractor with a service monopoly anymore.