The Little-Known Firm Helping the FBI Crack iPhones
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The Little-Known Firm Helping the FBI Crack iPhones
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#2Cellebrite is an Israeli company, not Japanese. They are owned by a Japanese parent company, but I'd argue that is not the same.
Volkswagen owning 100% of Lamborghini does not make the latter a german car manufacturer.
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#4Given Apple's almost unlimited cash they could always make companies like this an offer no intelligent person could turn down (especially if public) and have them explain what they do.
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#5Given Apple's almost unlimited cash they could always make companies like this an offer no intelligent person could turn down (especially if public) and have them explain what they do.
I wonder, is Apple hiring such companies to poke holes at its OS before it gets out of beta, or even after it's launched? Because if not, maybe they should.
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#6So basically the NSA/CIA develop the tech, license it to a contractor, who the FBI can then hire. Got it. I bet they know who to use it on before they even need to through Parallel Construction too. This is what the future looks like.
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#7> "... built its business on pinball game machines and stumbled into the mobile phone security business almost by accident." (first paragraph)
Pinball? In Japan? this isn't going to be pinball.
> "has been building pinball-like game machines found in Japan’s pachinko parlors since the 1970s" (third paragraph).
So it isn't pinball at all, it's pachinko. I know this is almost besides the point, but do Bloomberg really have such a low opinion of it's readers they think it's impossible to explain? To me at least it reads like:
"Tiger Woods, who rose to fame playing a football-like game across golf courses in America..."
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#8Cellebrite is an Israeli company, not Japanese. They are owned by a Japanese parent company, but I'd argue that is not the same. Volkswagen owning 100% of Lamborghini does not make the latter a german car manufacturer.
Yeah, I'd say that this is actually a piece intended to try to prevent any political fallout with a close ally of the US (Israel) at the expense of the nuclear whipping boy (Japan).
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#9> "... built its business on pinball game machines and stumbled into the mobile phone security business almost by accident." (first paragraph) Pinball? In Japan? this isn't going to be pinball. > "has been building pinball-like game machines found in Japan’s pachinko parlors since the 1970s" (third paragraph). So it isn't pinball at all, it's pachinko. I know this is almost besides the point, but do Bloomberg really…
A bit unfair since "pinball machine" used to refer to exactly what a pachinko machine is for a couple of hundred years before the "modern pinball" arrived.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinball has the first bagatelle spring plunger around 1750 and flippers around 1947)
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#10I wonder if their approach only works on iphone5 and not the 6? I thought I read somewhere the 6 has more advanced security features?