This week it was learned that the FBI is paying over $15.000 to Cellebrite to unlock an iPhone used by a terrorist in an armed attack last year, and that's because Apple refused to help it do this. thing.
Although many people question the choice made by the FBI, the reality is that this company called Cellebrite has been helping the FBI since 2014 in various IT security issues, but more than that, it has also been collaborating with Apple for a while long.
According to some information that appeared during this day, Apple uses Cellebrite products in its stores that allow the transfer of data between mobile terminals, so the whole situation is quite ironic considering the position of each individual company in the matter.
Knowing how decisions are made within the Apple company, the collaboration between it and Cellebrite will most likely be stopped in the immediate future because the efforts of the Israelis to help the FBI are certainly not viewed with good eyes in Cupertino.
It also makes commercial products that companies can use to help their customers transfer data from old phones to new ones. Apple even uses Cellebrite devices in some of its stores.
If the FBI succeeds in unlocking Apple iPhones with the help of Cellebrite, then the whole scandal between the two companies will stop, at least for the time being, but the government agency will probably want a law that forces Apple to compromise iOS security.
