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Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority Can Hack Athlete Phones

The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) recently inked a tech deal that enables it to bypass locks on smartphones to essentially hack athletes it suspects of doping.

The organization, which tests athletes for illegal substance use and investigates those it believes are attempting to use drugs to enhance performance, struck a 12-month deal with Cellebrite valued at $12,780 in March to license a Universal Forensic Extraction Device (UFED), according to a disclosure.

The contract provides ASADA with the ability to “easily bypass pattern, password or PIN locks and overcome encryption challenges,” to extract information (and potential evidence) from a smartphone, according to a description of the product on Cellebrite’s website.