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Unlocking Diana Quer's iPhone was an arduous process that took almost a year since the Civil Guard found the terminal. A few months before, doing the same with the telephone of the author of the San Bernarnido massacre cost the FBI more than 1 million euros. However, the use of this technology, previously a luxury reserved for higher profile cases, has become a practically routine process.

The person responsible for this change is an Israeli company called Cellebrite, which at the time unlocked the iPhone of the young woman killed in Galicia, who has developed a master key that allows them to unlock and access data from any iPhone and Android terminal in record time.

Police around the world no longer need a large budget or send their terminals to laboratories located abroad. The technique developed by the Israelis has advanced to such an extent that it is enough that their computers have installed in the company's software.

A step further taking into account that, so far, it was Cellebrite herself who was responsible for selling its own manufactured devices (in the form of a tablet to which to connect the phones to be unlocked) that had a limited number of uses .

Unlocking terminals that, in March of this year, caused a scandal since, although its use is supposed to be restricted to the forces of state security forces and intelligence agencies, they were for sale on Ebay by a modest price of 100 dollars .

According to OneZero, the New York police signed a contract of 200,000 euros with the Israeli company Cellebrite . An agreement that included the license to use the software and the training of police personnel in the use of these forensic techniques. However, confidentiality continues to be a very important element since the Israeli company requires that computers with the software be "in a safe room" in which cameras or any other element that allows the recording of videos.

Cellebrite has been taking advantage of vulnerabilities in Apple and Google operating systems for years to enter their phones without permission, surpassing their encryption and security systems. A service that has been alerting terminal manufacturers for years, which in most cases use security as a commercial claim to sell more phones.

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