There is an article in Government Executive today [Joon Ian Wong, An Israeli Company is Helping the FBI Unlock That iPhone] that describes what it says is the capabilities of a company in Israel that does data extraction and transfers from one phone to another (among other things). If you want to see it done, visit this website. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLmEwTYRv_U]
What is intriguing about this claim is that the technology has been around for some time, though it is not clear that these devices can bypass the security code on the iPhone. Maybe they can, and maybe they can't. Apple might be able to tell us about that.
What it does show is how much can be done with a simple device made for "law enforcement and government agencies". These kinds of devices are in our major cell phone vendors too. They can extract content from a cell phone, including address lists, something we all do when we trade up. Given the level of sophistication of the technology, we have to wonder what is going on here. I wrote about some of these kinds of things in my last book, The New Cyberwar, and they were not new then.
Apple and the FBI must both know about them.
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