Joseph Cox / 404 Media: Leaked docs show Cellebrite couldn’t forcibly unlock any iPhone running iOS 17.4 or newer as of April 2024; most of the listed Android devices could be unlocked — The leaked April 2024 documents, obtained and verified by 404 Media, show Cellebrite could not unlock a large chunk of modern iPhones.
For those comming from All, Cellebrite is a product that the police use to unlock mobile phones during investigations.
Not iPhones running 17.4+, evidently
Correct, that is indeed what the article says.
Is there any way to harden Android devices as they are? Will another OS support full disk encryption?
GrapheneOS has a feature which makes the USB-c port inactive unless the phones unlocked. I’d think this would be a preventative for cellebrite.
That’s interesting! Difficult to test, but in theory that should work. Unless they have a countermeasure for that.
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From developer mode it is possible to change the defaults so it only charges instead of enabling data access, would this help?
Sounds very similar to the settings option I referenced. Since I use my phone for music in my car via USB-C, it’d would prevent me from playin tunes and adding more music to my library. So I just set it to need to be unlocked for any data transfer. But this could do the job too I’d think.
