5 hours ago
You’re reading it here first: The Hyderabad City Police wants to acquire several invasive phone and computer cracking tools for its Cyber Crime unit, including software such as Cellebrite’s UFED that can bypass, reveal or disable lock codes of several makes of smartphones including those running iOS. The department is also looking to buy software that can retrieve data from popular platforms such as WhatsApp to access contacts, chats and attachments. The state government has invited bids from solution providers who can supply these tools, install and maintain them, and even train police personnel in using them.