• How the FBI accessed the Trump shooter's Samsung Galaxy phone

    From Gelato@gelato@.is.invalid to comp.mobile.android on Tue Jul 23 00:54:49 2024
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    https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/techandscience/the-fbi-got-into-the-trump-rally-shooter-s-phone-in-just-40-minutes/ar-BB1qhMgY

    Investigators at the FBI's Pittsburgh field office first tried to open
    Thomas Matthew Crooks' phone with a Cellebrite tool but weren't able to
    break into it.

    The phone was sent to the FBI lab in Quantico, Virginia on Sunday, where
    agents called Cellebrite's federal team, people familiar with the
    investigation told Bloomberg. Cellebrite sent the FBI an unreleased tool
    that's still in development, which was able to unlock Crooks' phone in 40 minutes.

    But the fact that investigators couldn't crack the phone using tools
    currently on the market shows how developments in operating systems can
    quickly render these tools obsolete.

    Crooks had a newer Samsung phone that runs on an Android operating system. Internal Cellebrite documents obtained by 404 Media show that the
    Cellebrite tools currently on the market have failed to unlock many phones running iOS 17.4 or newer, as well as Google Pixel 6, 7, and 8 phones that
    have been turned off.
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