Delhi Police can break into locked iPhones and Android phones using special tools, says report
In India, Delhi Police is one of the law enforcement agencies that can access data from smartphones including iPhones using special tools.
Ankita Chakravarti | December 22, 2020 | Updated 14:39 IST
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Delhi Police is one of the law enforcement agencies that can access data from smartphones.
Delhi Police use tools from Israeli cybersecurity company Cellebrite such as UFED (Universal Forensic Extraction Device). The tools used by American agencies have proven to be far more effective than their Indian counterparts.
If you thought nobody can ever extract data from your locked smartphone, you are highly mistaken. In India, Delhi Police is one of the law enforcement agencies that can access data from smartphones including iPhones using special tools, a report has claimed. However, the tools are not always successful.
Exclusive: Delhi Police has tools to extract data from smartphones, including iPhones Credit: Aditi Agrawal
At least one law enforcement agency in India Delhi Police has the tools to extract data from locked smartphones, including iPhones. However, the effectiveness and success rate of such tools remains under question.
There has been amplereportage about how American law enforcement agencies break into smartphones, especially iPhones, but the capabilities of their Indian counterparts have remained shrouded in mystery. The intrigue intensified after revelations that controversial Israeli cybersecurity firm NSO Group’s spyware was used to target at least 121 Indian citizens.
Tools available to the Delhi Police include tools from Israeli cybersecurity company Cellebrite such as UFED (Universal Forensic Extraction Device) Ultimate and Physical Analyzer that were famously used by FTI Consulting to suggest that Saudi Arabian Prince Mohammed Bin Salman had hacked into Jeff
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