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Hello and welcome. I'm Peter Balland from Technicon.

Today we are pleased to introduce an EU-funded project called X-Files.

To understand the goals of X-Files, you have to understand a bit about the modern mobile phone.

As of late, it has become the device in our pocket or purse, which contains a lot of our data.

In many cases, this data is sensitive, for your eyes only.

Phone manufacturers have addressed this privacy issue by giving the user the ability to encrypt

the contents of their device.

And when I say encrypt, I mean taking the readable data and altering it so that it appears random.

A total lockout for anyone without the password.

I think we'd all agree that encryption is a viable solution, but now let's look at this from another

angle.

Imagine a law enforcement agency that has recovered a criminal's locked phone, which may

contain evidence of a crime that has already happened or worse, future criminal plans that

could be prevented.

This is a situation that we will definitely see more of, and law enforcement needs the tools to do their job to extract data from locked phones.

This is a big deal, and this is exactly what X-Files is all about.

To find ways to access protected evidence by using semiconductor industry knowledge coupled with

software exploitation techniques. And of course, this all must be done within a legal and ethical

framework. Oh, and one more thing. The phone makers have no obligation or persuasion to help.

In fact, their hands are tied.

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