Copsâ iPhone Hacking Tools Are (Sometimes) Insecure And Buggy Share to Facebook Share to Linkedin Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images Police investigators are often confident in the ability of their hacking hardware to break into modern Apple and Google devices. Sometimes that confidence is misplaced. Take a case in Los Angeles earlier this year, where police said that it didnât matter whether a man suspected of drug trafficking and possessing child pornography provided the passcode to their iPhone 11 Pro Max because Israeli startupâs Cellebriteâs forensic device would be able to grab the data from it anyway. âThis extraction could and would have been done with or without the use of the passcode obtained from [the suspect],â the FBI agent working the case wrote in a search warrant application.