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If Cellebrite
succeeds, then the FBI will no longer need the help of Apple
Inc, the Israeli daily said, citing unnamed industry sources.
Cellebrite officials declined to comment on the matter.
Apple is engaged in a legal battle with the U.S. Justice
Department over a judge's order that it write new software to
disable passcode protection on the iPhone used by the shooter.
The two sides were set to face off in court on Tuesday, but on
Monday a federal judge agreed to the government's request to
postpone the hearing after U.S. prosecutors said a "third party"
had presented a possible method for opening an encrypted iPhone.
The development could bring an abrupt end to the high-stakes
legal showdown which has become a lightning rod for a broader
debate on data privacy in the United States.
Cellebrite, a subsidiary of Japan's Sun Corp, has its revenue
split between two businesses: a forensics system used by law
enforcement, military and intelligence that retrieves data
hidden inside mobile devices and technology for mobile
retailers.
(Reporting by Tova Cohen; Editing by Elaine Hardcastle)
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