What is there in phones, hmm?PKI keys to everything from jenkins servers to github accounts and between email correspondance, both professional and private sms/mms correspondance, both professional and private contact details for famous and infamous people compromising pictures that could get you blackmailed compromising pictures used for blackmail cryptocurrencies passwords for ebay, paypal, amex, visa, various banks, national lottery, car rental companies, airline accounts, etc... personal documentation, medical information, electronic medicine receipts GPS traces and tracks, coordinates for caches of drugs and precious metals Getting access to someone's phone is the best way to hack that person, to totally steal identity. Even if there is no special information in the device itself; just about every online account you have has 2-factor-auth based on your phone number. And the email client in the phone most probably already remembers your mail password... Need I spell it out for you?