Apple vs FBI: discover the company that will try to break the iPhone 5C

The Israeli company Cellebrite was charged by the FBI to find an alternative way to unlock the iPhone 5C Rizwan Syed Farook, one of the attackers involved in the San Bernardino shootout. Cellebrite is a company that develops solutions for forensic law enforcement and intelligence, and his participation in the event is not surprising that much. The news was reported by the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth and Reuters, but still lack of officialdom.

On Monday the US Department of Justice had requested a suspension of the first hearing because a "third party entity" was offered to release the attacker's device. Apple did not object to the request, with an audience that has been so delayed. The FBI must now work with this third company in order to find out if alternative methods considered by the company may actually lead to concrete results.
The authorities involved in the case will update the situation before the courts on April 5, with the process that could be abandoned in the event of a positive outcome. Last February, the government required of him by appealing to Apple terminal unlocking the law All Writs Act US. Law that does not work if an alternative solution can be found, then the government would have to establish that only Apple could have accomplished the task.

And it was what the DoJ had done in the first documents issued but, as we have already reported, an entity third party has been proposed at the last minute: "We knew of this possibility only today, this morning, the possibility that Apple is not in fact necessary, "he said a few days ago Tracy Wilkinson, assistant US attorney. Until a few hours ago, however, the name of this "body" was shrouded in mystery, but now we know that it is Cellebrite.

It therefore appears that the US Department of Justice has requested too early exploitation of the All Writs Act reads: "It is important that the government take all possible measures before asking for powers so far-reaching that could greatly affect the future of information security in the years to come, "said Darrell Issa, representative of the Republican Party for California. "And now it is clear that, in this case, not have adopted them."

It is possible that Cellebrite that she has developed over time a tool to recover data on iOS 9. It is also a chance that the FBI was already aware of this tool, but not entirely sure of its reliability. In any case, Apple has requested more details about this tool and how it is carried out the exploit of its mobile operating system, and it seems this is the reason acquiescent from the company. Knowing the exploit, in fact, Apple might fix the security bugs with a future software update.