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.
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)
http://www.techmeme.com/240718/p1#a240718p1
8 Comments
stoy@lemmy.zip · 22 pts · 2y
For those comming from All, Cellebrite is a product that the police use to unlock mobile phones during investigations.
EleventhHour@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
Not iPhones running 17.4+, evidently
stoy@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 2y
Correct, that is indeed what the article says.
pmk@lemmy.sdf.org · 6 pts · 2y
Is there any way to harden Android devices as they are? Will another OS support full disk encryption?
ExtravagantEnzyme@lemm.ee · 14 pts · 2y
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.
pmk@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 2y
That's interesting! Difficult to test, but in theory that should work. Unless they have a countermeasure for that.
ramble81@lemmynsfw.com · 1 pts · 2y
mrvictory1@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
From developer mode it is possible to change the defaults so it only charges instead of enabling data access, would this help?
ExtravagantEnzyme@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y
Sounds very similar to the settings option I referenced. Since I use my phone for music in my car via USB-C, it'd would prevent me from playin tunes and adding more music to my library. So I just set it to need to be unlocked for any data transfer. But this could do the job too I'd think.