Hacker Dumps iOS Cracking Tools Allegedly Stolen from Cellebrite
The hacker says this demonstrates that when organizations make hacking tools, those techniques will eventually find their way to the public.
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Now the hacker responsible has publicly released a cache of files allegedly stolen from Cellebrite relating to Android and BlackBerry devices, and older iPhones, some of which may have been copied from publicly available phone cracking tools.
"The debate around backdoors is not going to go away, rather, its is almost certainly going to get more intense as we lurch toward a more authoritarian society," the hacker told Motherboard in an online chat.
"It's important to demonstrate that when you create these tools, they will make it out. History should make that clear," they continued.
Cellebrite is an Israeli firm which specializes in extracting data from mobile phones for law enforcement agencies
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