OS shocker: Android phones said to be harder to crack open than the Apple iPhone

Cellebrite is the Israeli company known for its Universal Forensic Extraction Device (UFED) "cracking machine" that allows law enforcement to break into a locked smartphone. Apple has been involved in a battle with Cellebrite and its rival Grayshift. The latter's GrayKey machine is also used to extract data from a handset. Every time Apple blocks these machines from working, the companies come up with something new.

Plugged into an iPhone's Lightning port, these machines use technology that allows them to override the limit on the number of passcode attempts a user ...

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