By:. The Economist
In the pulse Apple and the FBI have maintained for months by the iPhone of one of the terrorists of San Bernardino (California) was in game “the privacy of users,” who insisted on protecting the giant technology, and research being carried out by the US federal police on the attack in which 14 people were killed and twenty wounded .
Freedom versus security returned to face in a dispute in which Apple has stood firm until the last moment. The company block had refused to cooperate with the FBI, although there was a court order that forced her to unlock the smartphone terrorist, not being ready ” to compromise private information of millions of our customers, “said Tim Cook repeatedly, executive director of the signing of the iPhone.
Apple was supported by other names in the sector. Among them, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, who took the opening day of the Mobile World Congress recently -held in Barcelona- to wonder aloud if “mobile decrypting the terrorism problem is solved.” “Empathize with Apple in its not the FBI,” he said.
Finally, the FBI got last week to access all the information stored on the iPhone of contention by the door back , hiring services Cellebrite, a company of Israeli origin specializing in forensic analysis and extraction of data that belongs to the Japanese group Sun Corporation .
Since last March 21, the shares of the Japanese company have risen more than 40% in the equity market, which is raising some US $ 70 million capitalization.
an increase has been accompanied by an unprecedented volume of trading in the listed firm. not surprisingly, if before made public the announcement by the FBI, he moved on average in the market 5 million shares of the company each day , now about 78 million traded, ie 1,300% more.
UFED, the tool needed the FBI
the challenge of this small Japanese company for mobile devices is growing. Both already represents about 50% of its business. Almost half of its revenues come from this field displacing until a few years ago was its main source of business, the Pachinko , a game with a lot of success in Japan which is very similar to the classic pinball .
And, since 2007, took the Israeli Cellebrite, the percentage of their revenue from this business has exploded. In fact, over the past three years, the share of related business with mobile telephony has grown at a rate of 40% yoy.
Cellebrite is now a regular contributor to security forces and armies in counterterrorism investigations . More than 100 countries have been required in recent years services UFED (Universal Forensic device extraction, in English), the heramienta the company itself describes as “a mobile forensic high-tech solution which extracts, decodes and analyzes data from smart devices for use in law enforcement. “
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