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Hacker Steals 900 GB of Cellebrite Data (vice.com)
An anonymous reader shares a Motherboard report: Motherboard has obtained 900 GB of data related to Cellebrite, one of the most popular companies in the mobile phone hacking industry. The cache includes customer information, databases, and a vast amount of technical data regarding Cellebrite's products. The breach is the latest chapter in a growing trend of hackers taking matters into their own hands, and stealing information from companies that specialize in surveillance or hacking technologies. Cellebrite is an Israeli company whose main product, a typically laptop-sized device called the Universal Forensic Extraction Device (UFED), can rip data from thousands of different models of mobile phones. That data can include SMS messages, emails, call logs, and much more, as long as the UFED user is in physical possession of the phone.
If the hacker(s) is/are smart the first thing he/they did was set up multiple deadman caches of the data that would automatically splash the data all over the web and physically send multiple copies of the data by multiple means/routes to multiple news/press/media outlets across the world if anything happened to them, as insurance against any possible reprisals/arrests/etc. I would, and I'm no uber-1337 h4x0r. Just in no hurry to find out if there's an afterlife or if my cellmate's name would actually be 'Bubba'. :)
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Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.
The only reason they have been able to become a high tech and military industry powerhouse is thanks to the endless supply of money that keeps flowing in from the US. There are universities, tech, and medical campuses in Israel that are funded solely by US 'donations.' The entire country functions on favors and shady backroom deals. It is basically a nation equivalent of Hollywood.