The FBI recently managed to break in a iPhone 5C που χρησιμοποιήθηκε από έναν από τους τρομοκράτες του San Bernardino. Apple is currently waiting for the hack to be leaked before it can patch the security hole.
The rumors reported that the company that helped the FBI break the device is the Israeli Cellebrite, which seems to be preparing to break a next iPhone.
This time, the iPhone is an iPhone 6 belonging to the dead adopted son of Leonardo Fabbretti from Italy, who wants to access the photos and messages that exist on the locked phone. After a personal contact with Tim Cook to help him retrieve the photos from the device, Fabbretti contacted Apple technical engineers, who attempted to extract the backups from iCloud.
But backups to iCloud had never been created, so father can not get his son photos.
Here is where the Israeli company decided to intervene and decided to invite the person in the headquarters of the company to see if they could break this phone. So the company copied the contents of the device to its computers and now tries to break encryption.
Ο Fabbretti ανέφερε στο CNN ότι το iPhοne είναι προστατευμένο με ένα κωδικό πρόσβασης που δεν γνωρίζει, και το μόνο που θέλει είναι να "δει τις φωτογραφίες του γιου του, να παρακολουθήσει βίντεο του και να ακούσει τη φωνή του."
He claims that parents should not buy iPhones for their children because they can not be sure they will have access to stored data if they ever need it.
Cellebrite is reported to have said it will break the device completely free of charge (the company has been paid since the release of the story). It remains to be seen if they manage to break the device.