Unlocking news: We decrypt those cryptic headlines about Scottish cops bypassing smartphone encryption

Unlocking news: We decrypt those cryptic headlines about Scottish cops bypassing smartphone encryption

New perspective on FBI, Interpol demands for backdoors


Vid Police Scotland to roll out encryption bypass technology, as one publication reported this week, causing some Register readers to silently mouth: what the hell?


With all the brouhaha over the FBI, like a broken record, once again demanding Apple backdoor its iPhone security, and tech companies under pressure to weaken their cryptography, how has the Scottish plod sidestepped all this and bypassed encryption?


What magic do they possess that world powers do not, as some of you asked us.


It's pretty simple: the force is using bog-standard Cellebrite gear that, typically, plugs into smartphones via USB and attempts to forcibly unlock ..

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