After FBI, an Indian police agency is trying to crack Apple's code

Months after the FBI hacked into the iPhone by cracking Apple's encryption code, India's Delhi Police is trying to get the technology to unlock the company's devices. Indian cops are also in touch with international companies to find ways to extract data from 8,400 other mobile phones manufactured by Blackberry and Chinese companies.

The police is in the process of getting the software and training to unlock and extract data from iPhones, and iCloud. According to The Times of India, the police event hope to decrypt WhatsApp's end-to-end encrypted chats. It also wants to access contacts, messages, call lists, deleted social media posts and geo data, as well as details from apps like Foursquare, Line, Viber, Dropbox, Remember the Milk, Textie, VK and Kik.

The cops are also seeking software to block and detect malware, as well as tools to produce passwords by brute force to unlock private accounts, email examiners, digital intelligence servers and computer forensic tools. The Delhi Police is also in the process of training its officials to deal with cyber crime, in order to reduce its dependence on dealing with private forensic investigators.

The news comes soon after the FBI used a new technique that it purchased from unnamed hackers to hack into an iPhone that was used by Syed Farook, the gunman in the San Bernadino attack in December 2015. The announcement ended a long court battle between the FBI and Apple that raised questions of digital privacy versus national security. The hackers had unlocked Farook's iPhone 5c using a previously undiscovered security flaw in Apple's software. 

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