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.

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.

  • phoneymouse@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    Yeah, but phones have encryption and security. In order to get access to the data on the phone, cellebrite is hacking the device to circumvent the security measures and break the encryption, which is illegal for any individual to do, and should also be illegal for a corporation to do (corporations are individuals, legally speaking).

    Phone manufacturers do not want companies like cellebrite breaking into their devices because it can be used for nefarious purposes. If cellebrite can get in, any other hacker can get in. So, phone makers are always closing these security vulnerabilities where they can find them.

    • SloppyPuppy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      Cellebrite is (hopefully) used under the law. They either get warrant or use a perpetual warrant on urgent security stuff. At least in countries with proper laws and abiding police.

      Hackers sure indeed can use the insecurities cellebrite is using. But cellebrite has massive amount of budget for finding insecurities which normal hackers / people lack.