📚 Scotland Solves the Password-Protected iPhone Issue in the Easiest Possible Way

While the United States is pushing for Apple to unlock password-protected iPhones and wants the industry to put backdoors into all electronics, Scotland has come up with an idea that’s very likely to work much smoother going forward. Police Scotland will use so-called cyber kiosks to break into locked devices as part of criminal investigations, technically being able to extract the data without the need for any help from the company that manufactured the device. While no specifics have been provided on how the cyber kiosks will be able to access data on password-protected smartphones, Scottish authorities say these machines will be installed in police stations across local policing divisions and will be operated by specially-trained officers. No privacy invasion What the police want is “information which may be of value to a police investigation or incident,” and analyzing devices at local stations allow those “that are not relevant to an investi... ...