NYC law enforcement has been able to crack iPhones in-house since Jan 2018

Law enforcement agents in New York City have been able to crack iPhones in-house since January 2018 – some 18 months before the capability was revealed by the company supplying the technology.

It was June 2019 that Israeli forensics firm Cellebrite announced its ‘new’ UFED Premium product would, for the first time, allow customers to unlock iPhones in their own offices – rather than have to send them to the company’s own labs. But a new report today found that the product has been in use for far longer than this …

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