The police in Great Britain have found the best solution to "break" the security systems of the iPhone and iOS without asking for the help of the Apple company in any way. They thought that "stealing" suspects' iPhones is easier than paying to hack the operating system of a terminal that the criminal does not want to unlock.
More precisely, the policemen of a special police unit "stole" a suspect's iPhone while they were talking to him, in order to risk blocking the device. The suspect is part of a group that clones bank cards, and the police believe that the device contains essential data for the investigation they are conducting regarding him.
The police knew that the suspect was using the iPhone terminal to communicate with various members of the criminal group that cloned cards and used them in Europe to buy luxury goods. Aware of the fact that the suspect will refuse to unlock his terminal and they will not have access to the conversations, the police "stole" the device while the suspect was talking on the phone.
By "stealing" the phone from the suspect's ear, the police claim that they obtained access to a multitude of data that incriminates him, but not only that. The police claim that without "stealing" the iPhone terminal in the middle of the street, they would not have been able to gain access to the data due to the existing security measures in its operating system, Americans facing the same problem.
"The challenges of pin code access and encryption on some phones make it harder to access evidence in a timely fashion than ever before. Officers had to seize Yew's phone from him in the street. This evidence was crucial to the prosecution."
Now, imagine how much the authorities are afraid of iOS security systems since they resort to such tactics to access iPhone data. It is expected that actions of this kind will be repeated in the future and with greater frequency, especially as Apple continues to strengthen its iOS security system, but also the refusals to help the authorities.
