US State Department Buys $15,000 iPhone Hacking Device

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GrayKey, the iPhone hacking device manufactured by Grayshift, has caught the attention of the US government, especially amid the struggle to break iPhone encryption in several criminal cases, so the US State Department decided to purchase the $15,000 device for its own secret use.

A report from Motherboard reveals that the State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security ordered the device on March 6. The US government’s public federal procurement data system, which the cited site uses as source for its report, doesn’t specifically mention Grayshift, but says that the government purchased “computer and computer peripheral equipment.”

Information like the phone number of the vendor, however, matches the one in another purchase made by Indian State Police, which also ordered GrayKey recently.

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Wow, 15K is cheap for that, do they have a home model?

All Apple has to do is buy one for themselves and implement countermeasures. They probably spend more a week on pencils than the cost of this device. But we pretty much know Apple's so-called 'refusal' to unlock devices is largely a publicity stunt anyway since they were one of the first Prism Partners.