Android smartphones are harder to hack than iPhones

Bypassing iPhone security is difficult - which is partly why it has taken more and more time to jailbreak a new one lately. This also worried Western forensic experts, who required data from suspects' smartphones to prove their guilt. However, don't assume that Android is an open book.

Detective Rex Kaiser, who conducts digital forensics for the police in the American city of Fort Worth, told:

Now we have the ability to jailbreak iPhone, although a year ago we could not do it. But we could get into any Android smartphone. Now we have difficulty jailbreaking many Android devices.

In his massive article on forensic smartphone hacking, Vice notesthat Cellebrite equipment, which authorities use to obtain data, perform much worse with modern Android smartphones, and are not able to correctly extract data from social networks, browser history or GPS data. They were talking about models like the Google Pixel 2, Samsung Galaxy S9 and Huawei P20 Pro - in short, not new products.

At the same time, UFED 4PC - the software now used by experts in the United States - is capable of extracting a variety of data from the iPhone X and earlier models. information, including GPS data, messages, call history, contact list, and in part - data from Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest and Snapchat. It was not possible to achieve such success with newer devices, but if there is an order, specialists are able to get data from cloud services.