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FBI Tries To Force Google To Unlock User's Android Phone
Trailrunner7 writes "Those multi-gesture passcode locks on Android phones that give users (and their spouses) fits apparently present quite a challenge for the FBI as well. Frustrated by a swipe passcode on the seized phone of an alleged gang leader, FBI officials have requested a search warrant that would force Google to 'provide law enforcement with any and all means of gaining access, including login and password information, password reset, and/or manufacturer default code ("PUK"), in order to obtain the complete contents of the memory of cellular telephone.' The request is part of a case involving an alleged gang leader and human trafficker named Dante Dears in California. Dears served several years in prison for his role in founding a gang in California called PhD, and upon his release he went back to his activities with the gang, according to the FBI's affidavit."
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/03/fbi-stumped-by-pimps-androids-pattern-lock-serves-warrant-on-google.ars
The one thing I found amusing about the whole thing is that PhD supposedly stood for "Pimpin' Hoes Daily". Then I read this:
Major league asshole. I hope he gets the book thrown at him.
/^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i
If his credentials are being properly stored as SHA2 hashes, I don't think Google could comply with this anyways. This is the whole point in using hashes over encryption.
I'm surprised the FBI can't just dump the flash and brute force it. There are only about 100,000 possible patterns.
What they will get out of it is any information on the perpetrator that Google has in their control - so Gmail, Picasa, anything on their servers. This is what a warrant does, and any content provider such as Google will have this in their TOS.
What they *might* get is a replacement account password to access the phone. That's unclear to me. It's in that respect that I don't know how Google will proceed.
What they will NOT get, however, are unlocks, text messages (unless he backs those up into his Gmail account), device passwords, device unlock patterns, or anything that would be used to unlock the device. That's all up to the mobile carrier or (possibly) the device manufacturer - not Google.
And for those who think Google made the device, no, they didn't. Somebody else did. May have been Motorola, LG, HTC, or Samsung, just to name the big four phone makers who put out Android off the top of my head. Google's support ends at the operating system development level, and whatever they have on their network. Demanding of Google whatever's on the mobile network or the device unto itself is like demanding an Amtrak schedule of Pepsico.
This sig no verb.
This is not a technical case. It's a legal one.
They want to be able to hack the phone the "legally", so the alleged proof can be use in court.
It is useless to argue with people that cite statistic in order to imply fact. What is wrong in his post, and partially yours, is that you say "black people are 8 times more likely to.....". Do you see where is the problem? Let me try another way: "......if you go in your backyard, the probability that you will see dinosaur is 50%. Because you will either see it, or not see it....."
But the FACT is that you don't have dino in your backyards, and you will never have, no matter what the "fact", i mean statistic says.
The same with all these "...8 times more likely....", and then you put in a row 1 black and 1 white, and everybody would be convinced that it was the black guy. Oh, never mind, who am i to argue with the facts.
No, the story says the phone in question is a seized phone. It's evidence in their possession. They just can't read it.
Why they were even bothering with the unlock screen rather than just slurping up all the data on the phone with a UFED is beyond me.
Because cops are idiots and the only reason the system works is because criminals are usually even dumber ?
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
Considering the dinosaur clade includes birds, there is almost certainly a dinosaur in your backyard, if you have a backyard. The odds of seeing one would depend upon your eyesight, if you have a dinosaur feeder, if you have binoculars, day vs. night, etc. But I think we could use 50% as a nice estimate for daylight hours.
1) Flash a rooted kernel and CWM recovery with ODIN (all Samsung phones allow this)
2) boot into recovery
3) connect to the phone using ADB
4) Using sqlite, update the settings database and disable security
You're welcome.
I don't always use unix-like operating systems; but when I do, I prefer FreeBSD.
Because according to the link you provided Android support is not included on this UFED thingy?
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I used to think that the whole "stay the fuck away from black women" by black men was bullshit...until i spent nearly two years playing in a black band as the only white guy. in fact the singer used to diffuse tense situations when we'd first go into a black club by saying "Haven't you people heard of affirmative action? this is our token white boy!", but not a single one of them would EVER so much as speak to a black woman, much less date one. One night at the club I just flat out asked "Why? there are plenty of seriously hot women in this club, why wouldn't you even speak to them?" and finally Charles the singer said "Go try it, and see for yourself". i did and fuuuuuck, talk about queen bitches of the western world! they make it VERY fucking clear they look at you as nothing but a walking wallet, really don't give a fuck WHAT you think, and are more fucking bossy than a damned dominatrix. When I went back to Charles they were all snickering at the thousand yard stare I had on and I was all "Holy shit, not if they was the last fucking females on the face of God's green earth would i put up with that much domination!"
So I can see why black men completely avoid black women and won't stay with one, I wouldn't have one on a bet! I've dated White, Asian, Latino, and my current GF is Cherokee and I have NEVER seen women that are so damned emasculating as the black. I even thought "Maybe its just a fluke, i'll try the next state over when we play there on sat" and nope, not a fluke, being a ball breaking superbitch is pretty much SOP for the black female, and talk about racist! There are many of them that made it quite clear they look at any race other than black as beneath them, which is of course ironic as hell as the black males don't want a damned thing to do with them on account of their ballbusting. No wonder in cities like Atlanta there is less than 2 black men for every 10 black women, because the black men that actually want to keep a pair sure as hell ain't gonna go near them bitches!
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.