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Cellebrite asks cops to keep its phone hacking tech ‘hush hush’ | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

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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.

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[-] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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.”

[-] stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago

Oh…

Yeah that’s not so great and should definitely be handled. How do they know for example that you’re with the police for sure or not etc etc

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