On Tuesday evening eBay said that the listings offering an ability to unlock phones without a passcode violated its terms and conditions and it would remove them from its site after its attention was drawn to their existence by. In a statement, the company said: “These items are prohibited on our site, and we are removing them.”
The company, which in 2021 had a value of £1.9bn, has built a lucrative worldwide business in providing its flagship UFEDs and other products to police, intelligence and other law enforcement bodies with a promise that they can access virtually the entire range of Apple and Android mobile devices. It only takes a few seconds for an employee of Cellebrite’s technology, one of the world’s leading hacking companies, to take a locked smartphone and pull the data from it