Apple Decrypts Seized iPhones For The Police
The security features built into <a href="http://thehackernews.com/search?q=Apple">Apple</a>’s iOS software are so good that the police are unable to gain access to defendant’s <a href="http://thehackernews.com/search?q=iPhone">iPhones</a> when they need to. Companies like Apple and Google are being asked by law enforcement officials to bypass these protections to aid in investigations.</div>
Apple receives so many police demands to decrypt seized iPhones that it has created a waiting list to handle the deluge of requests. In one of the recent cases, according to court documents, the federal agents were baffled by the encrypted iPhone 4S of a man in Kentucky who was charged for supplying <a href="http://thehackernews.com/search?q=crack%20password">crack</a> cocaine.</div>
CNET <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57583843-38/apple-deluged-by-police-de... that ATF agent Rob Maynard spent three months trying to “locate a local, state, or federal law enforcement agency with the forensic capabilities to unlock” an iPhone 4S. After everyone said that they did not have the capabilities, Maynard turned to Apple.</div>
Apple can reportedly bypass the security lock to get access to data on a phone, download it to an external device and hand that over to the authorities.</div>
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