one of the things about cellebrite, every time a new phone comes out, it usually takes cellebrite 6-8onths to be able to figure out how to -- apple'ses security and then they push the updates to their technology and then everybody has that access. emily: interesting. learned a lot. alex webb, who covers apple for us. the case has been so fascinating. it unfolded in many unexpected ways. now to amazon, responding to a request on gender pay. finding that women working for the company in the u.s. earned 99.9 cents for every dollar men earned during the same job. amazon said it hired an independent labor economist to conduct the study, but not without a fight, first. the activist arm called on amazon to report on the gap between male and female worker'' pay. amazon wrote to the fcc, seeking to omit the resolution arguing it was so vague it would be unable to determine what actions the proposal requires. in response the sec disagreed , and rejected the request. coming up, the secretive startup that is taking on google in the race to make self driving cars. we will tell you about a status u

cellebrite is owned by a japanese firm, sun corporation.lebrite has several hundred employees, the company is often contacted by law enforcement officials and presumably corporations to retrieve data through its universal forensic extraction devices. ufed. what we're about to show you is one of the company's devices that extracts data from cell phones, though we're not sure this was the device that helped the fbi crack the phone in the san bernardino case. >> complete with user instructions. every connection port possible in a fully equipped mission ready kit filled with every mobile frenzics aorensics acces need. >> we do not know if this is the device used to help the fbi in this case. but it does show basically how it works. the phone's usb cord goes into the cellebrite device, it tells the machine what it wants from the phone, capable of retrieving memory, other kinds of data, deleted or not, cracking passwords, and replicating sim cards. that video, by the way, and all others are available in the company's website for marketing purpose

government hack into that phone is involved in the san bernardino case is an israeli company called cellebrite. it is owned by japanese company called sun corps. and the interesting note, on tuesday when news came out, sun corps rallied 17% alone and the stock has doubled since its became relevant when we learned that apple was fighting the fbi in its own devices on how to unhack that phone. it gave them a boost, but did trail back a little bit, down over 1% in line with the prodder japanese -- broader japanese market today. >> thanks for that. >>> up next, the nfl versus "the new york times." why the football league is demanding a retraction from the paper of record. >>> plus, he's won a heisman trophy, but does tim tebow have a future in politics? >>> bill karins says 18 million people are at risk for severe weather and possible tornadoes. we'll have a check of the weather when we come back. there are two billion people who don't have access to basic banking, but that is changing. at temenos, with the microsoft cloud, we can enable a banker to travel to the most remote locations with nothing

according to industry sources, the fbi has been getting help from this israeli company, cellebrite, experts in mobile forensics with tools to extract and decode data from the iphone 5c. the justice department now dropping its court case against apple. >> it's not about this one phone. it's about everyone's phone. >> reporter: daniel gilmore, a tech expert with the aclu, says many knowledgeable hackers could have gained access. >> if someone has physical access to a device and they have an unlimited amount of time and money, they will get to the data on that device. >> reporter: gilmore says the fbi was trying to set precedent by going public, taking apple to court. across the country, law enforcement has hundreds of cases from crimes where investigators desperately want access inside locked smartphones. apple says the company will continue to work with investigators, but people around the world deserve data protection security and privacy. the fbi assistant director in charge, david bowdich says i am satisfied that we have access to more answers than we did before. >> the fbi has now shown

cellebrite has a number of clients including the fbi. and it will continue to evolve its technology to try to continue to extract information from devices. meanwhile, apple and the rest of the technology world will try to stay one step ahead, we're going to have this continuing tension going forward. >> it is a company that is in existence to make money, josh. you have to wonder if they're successful in breaking into this iphone, what will that -- what will that solution then cost on the open market? >> really interesting. i was actually talking to chris sagoyan at the aclu. we heard about the mysterious third party, i was asking chris who he thought it could be. he did mention, sometimes u.s. government will pay private security firms and pay them handsomely to detect these kind of security vulnerabilities. chris told me that number could be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, melissa. >> all right, josh lipton and dawn, thank you, both, appreciate it. good discussion. >>> up next, another big name company threatening to pull out o

investigators are reportedly asking for help from an israeli software forensics company called cellebrite. the company says it can unlock the intelligence on mobile data sources and extract information from all types of phones. earlier this week the fbi suggested that they may have found a way to unlock the iphone of one of the san bernardino terrorists without apple's help. >>> forever 21 decided to stop selling one of its shirts after a social media backlash. here it is. it reads, quote, don't say maybe if you want to say no. it appeared on forever 21's website for men. some who saw the shirt began tweeting forever 21 saying it was promoting rape culture. forever 21 released a statement saying in part we sincerely apologize to anyone who was offended by the product. >>> uc berkeley's chancellor promised new discipline additional resources and staffing to combat sexual harassment and assaults on campus. the new plan comes after several high profile harassment cases, including a law school dean who resigned earlier this month and an assistant basketball coach was fired just last week. now

eople talk about a cellebrite. cory: it's a machine, the company's based in israel. company is based in japan. it's been around for a while. guest: yeah. it was bought by the japanese in 1999. but as far as i understand, it remains largely independent. h.q., c.e.o., israeli, they do have offices over here in the u.s. i think it's largely a sales operation. most of the r&d is done out of israel. cory: one of the stories said there's 500 employees in a suburb of tel aviv. there's a lot of cybersecurity work that happens out of israel. guest: yeah. it's one of the reasons i think bloomberg themselves says a lot of tech innovation happening in that part of the world. cory: any notion -- here's the question. if the f.b.i.'s had a contract with these guys for a long time, the f.b.i. saying the inability to get this, or let me rephrase it, the f.b.i. said they needed apple to get into this phone and they didn't need apple to get into this phone. but one wonders, when they realized they didn't need apple to get into the phone, and if the court case had testify -- itself was

investigators reportedly signed a $15,000 contract with an israeli software forensics company called cellebriteck the intelligence and mobile data sources and extract information from all types of phones. earlier this week the fbi suggested they may have found a way to unlock the iphone of one of the san bernardino terrorists without apple's help. >>> a busy stretch of highway near downtown san jose is now a lasting tribute to a fallen police officer. part of highway 87 was dedicated to the memory of officer michael johnson. yesterday marked one year since officer johnson was shot and killed as he responded to a call about a suicidele man -- suicidal man. johnson grew up in san jose and had been with the department for 14 years and the stretch of road has special meaning to johnson and his family. we are told that he used to bike through there as a kid and as an adult he drove that way every day to work. and his wife was saying how she drives that way every day to work and she will now be honored to see his name on that sign. >> i remember his mom talking about that specific moment where they w