A police report reveals that GrayKey has already been able to unlock the FBI's iPhone 11 Pro Max

With the shooting of Penescola, the debate over whether Apple should offer a backdoor to the authorities' iPhone has reopened. Not new, the San Beranardino case is still active. Still, all the time Many questions arise if US police really need Apple to access these two iPhone's used in attacks or if it's just a reason to have that back in the future.

The US Attorney General has asked Apple to unlock the two iPhone (though technically impossible because of how encryption is designed from end to end) and Donald Trump, president of the United States, wants enter the conversation

. Anyway, it's the iPhone 5 and iPhone 7, two phones, because of their age, third-party tools are already able to unlock with the brute Force. That is, the authorities can actually access these two iPhone's if they want without Apple's help, without a backdoor.

Even the latest iPhone model can be forced to unlock

It's all getting worse when you look at a new report that already flashes thanks to Forbes. This is an FBI document that shows how the FBI has just used the tool. GrayKey to unlock the iPhone 11 Pro Max, in fact the safest iPhone of its new age and the iOS models it uses.

According to the report, FBI investigators in Ohio have used the GrayKey Hardware case to unlock the iPhone 11 Pro Max. The phone in question belonged to Baris Ali Koch, who was accused of helping his convicted brother flee the country by allowing him to use his passport. The phone's owner's attorney confirmed that Forbes did The iPhone password has never been given to the FBI

Part of a police documentary discussing the GrayKey tool and the iPhone 12.5 (iPhone 11 Pro Max).

Companies like Grayshift and Cellebrite seem to have the tools needed to unlock the iPhone, as Apple is increasingly strengthening phone security. So why do managers keep asking Apple to open up? On the other hand it would just be the question of not paying these companies $ 1 million

by turning on the tools.

Apple is preparing to fight authorities with the secret of the Pensacola iPhone according to the NYT

On the other hand there is a far more important issue that matters, and in cases like Penescola, the authorities exercise the pressure to push for new rules forcing Apple to build these backdrops. At that time Apple could not refuse because it had to comply with the law if it wanted to continue operating in the country. They are currently obliged to provide information related to the iCloud account (not its contents, which are still encrypted), but it is useless to unlock the phone.

Via | Forbes