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Cellebrite Can Now Unlock Apple iPhone 6, 6 Plus (cyberscoop.com)
Patrick O'Neill writes: A year after the battle between the FBI and Apple over unlocking an iPhone 5c used by a shooter in the San Bernardino terrorist attack, smartphone cracking company Cellebrite announced it can now unlock the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus for customers at rates ranging from $1,500 to $250,000. The company's newest products also extract and analyze data from a wide range of popular apps including all of the most popular secure messengers around. From the Cyberscoop report: "Cellebrite's ability to break into the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus comes in their latest line of product releases. The newest Cellebrite product, UFED 6.0, boasts dozens of new and improved features including the ability to extract data from 51 Samsung Android devices including the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge, the latest flagship models for Android's most popular brand, as well as the new high-end Google Pixel Android devices."
"The company charges $1,500 to unlock an individual phone, while a yearly subscription to the service runs for $250,000, according to a report from the Intercept last year."
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How do you know Cellebrite isn't an Apple funded offshoot to funnel govt money in exchange for backdoors.
Help me understand the legal standing of Cellbrite.
If I buy an iPhone 6 and circumvent the built-in encryption, am I not in violation of the DCMA? Yet when Cellbrite does it, and sells that service as a product it's not a DMCA violation but instead a legal offering to law enforcement (or anyone willing to pay the crazy fee)?
Am I missing something here?
I'll keep my secrets in my head and stick to a $50 dumbphone with nothing in it and not even turned on for more than 1 hour a day. Seriously you people so attached to your goddamned smartphones are pathetic and I pity you.
Grandpa Gribble? they let you out of the home again?
If you are that shit shakingly paranoid about security, why on earth are you even using a device whose main feature is to track you? Without that tracking, the cellular system doesn't function. And they even keep logs.
That one hour you have it turned on, your phone is alerting your presence to teh authorities, and they be a comin ta get ya!
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
Such a brave stance that--- Well, although many of us are indeed too dependent on our smartphones, they offer real utility beyond taking pictures of our food.
There is nothing about the cellular system that is secure. So use what you use as long as you are comfortable with it. AC has some weird ideas that he is somehow immune to the tracking and other possibilities that are just inherent in the system. If LE is interested, any time his phone connects to a couple towers, he's nailed. I'm not inclined to do anything illegal, but if I was, none of it would be on my cell or computer. I use the hell out of my smartphone for trip mapping and location services. The occasional tethering, and most of that is data lookup. I have no plans to get rid of mine, no matter what some AC thinks.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
Sounds like the shareholders of Cellebrite need to be strung up by their necks until dead for allowing the government to spy upon us.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
I remember doing that a few decades ago. I worked at ScumSoft, Inc. and since I was very sick the only way to open my office door was to use a photocopy of my face I did a week earlier.
#DeleteFacebook
If I were one of the affected manufacturers, I'd get phones unlocked (in another name) and study them carefully when they came back. Maybe even install some spyware to try to figure out what Cellebrite is doing. And then fix those vulnerabilities.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
people need to defend themselves.
there are hostiles out there that want to do us harm, either now or perhaps, later.
these hostiles are GOVERNMENTS and CORPORATIONS.
no one speaks for us, the individual, anymore. both those bad guys want to do us harm and do not have our best interests at heart.
its time for a revolution. seriously, its over due.
and if those treasonous corps and govs get punished by mobs, I don't think I'll lose any sleep over that ;)
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