Leaked docs show Cellebrite couldn't forcibly unlock any iPhone running iOS 17.4 or newer as of April 2024; most of the listed Android devices could be unlocked (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
Leaked docs show Cellebrite couldn't forcibly unlock any iPhone running iOS 17.4 or newer as of April 2024; most of the listed Android devices could be unlocked (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
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Joseph Cox / 404 Media: Leaked docs show Cellebrite couldn't forcibly unlock any iPhone running iOS 17.4 or newer as of April 2024; most of the listed Android devices could be unlocked — The leaked April 2024 documents, obtained and verified by 404 Media, show Cellebrite could not unlock a large chunk of modern iPhones.
For those comming from All, Cellebrite is a product that the police use to unlock mobile phones during investigations.
Not iPhones running 17.4+, evidently
Correct, that is indeed what the article says.
Is there any way to harden Android devices as they are? Will another OS support full disk encryption?
GrapheneOS has a feature which makes the USB-c port inactive unless the phones unlocked. I'd think this would be a preventative for cellebrite.
That's interesting! Difficult to test, but in theory that should work. Unless they have a countermeasure for that.
Wouldn’t that only help if the OS is loaded? What about during a reboot at a device level? The user drive by is encrypted on boot but if they manage to extract the key…