David Hanak The American company DriverSavers primarily deals with the recovery of data from damaged data storages, such as classic disks or more modern SSDs. Now they have come up with a new service in which they offer to "extract" data from an iPhone (or iPad) for those interested, even if it is a locked or damaged device.
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Company in official statement said that from now on it offers users the option of extracting data from a locked, destroyed or otherwise inaccessible iOS device. If users forget their password or lock their phone in some way, they should be able to access their data. DriveSavers is said to have an unspecified proprietary system that was previously only available to government and law enforcement agencies who used it for the aforementioned purposes during criminal investigations.
It is not yet clear what kind of technology this is, but according to the statement, the company is able to preserve, for example, photos, videos, contacts, messages, voice recordings, notes and more. The service should work for all devices, be it iOS, Android, even BlackBerry or Windows Phone.
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Amaya Toman Similar tools have been discussed many times in the past. Probably the most famous is the so-called GrayKey box, which was supposed to bypass the iPhone's internal security and possibly break the device's security code with the help of proprietary jailbreak software. However, this method of breaking protection should have been disabled with the arrival of iOS 12, at least according to Apple's official statement. In connection with this, Apple has published a special program that is used to cooperate with various security components of the world, which can "request" the required data through it.
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But let's get back to DriveSavers. It offers its new service to ordinary customers and, on the other hand, stifles itself by not offering it to the security forces to help them unlock and "extract" some device connected to the investigation. The entire data recovery process is interwoven with several verification mechanisms, thanks to which the company verifies that the device is really the one requesting data recovery. DriveSavers charges almost four thousand dollars (over 100 thousand crowns) for this entire process. After completing the recovery process, the user will receive a completely unlocked phone and a medium on which all the extracted data backup will be stored. According to the company's additional statement, this service will be used, for example, by survivors who do not want to lose the data of their partners or relatives.
Source: iphonehacks
An American company CLAIMS it can unlock any locked iPhone.
In the headline it says 90.000 CZK, in the text of the report it says over 100.000 CZK, I did not find any amount in the source article, in the source of that source, or I also couldn't find any amount on the DriverSavers site, just a phone number for more information - and that is very suspicious - I have no doubt that anyone who calls this will be out of pocket and will not hear anything. So I don't like this article at all.
"allegedly in possession of an unspecified proprietary system that was previously only available to government and law enforcement agencies who used it for the above purposes during criminal investigations."
So why did the government try to change the law and force Apple to cooperate when, according to this company, they didn't need it at all?