Cellebrite asks cops to keep its phone hacking tech ‘hush hush’ | TechCrunch::For years, cops and other government authorities all over the world have been using phone hacking technology provided by Cellebrite to unlock phones and In a leaked video, a Cellebrite employee urges law enforcement customers to keep their use of its phone hacking technology secret.
They do hack the devices though. https://9to5mac.com/2022/02/10/cellebrite-kit-cant-unlock-iphones/
To follow your gun analogy, it’s like “we won’t sell you this special gun, but for a fee we can be your hit man.”