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.
Reminder: They’re using your tax dollars to pay other companies to spy on you. This will only get worse.
I really love Signal.
That was the article that introduced me to signal, very good read.
They’ll do their best to keep this out of the courtroom. This is a spying tool for parallel construction and espionage (corporate, political, etc) and they do not want to get called onto the stand under oath to testify about it.
Yes they will, and it will work. It’s not like this is the first time fascists built tools for other fascists to use on the public illegally, then once it came to light the tired, sick, worked to death population did exactly what they were conditioned to do, nothing, because they can’t, they have no power, because they have been drained by corporate fascists so they have no recourse, no say in anything, it’s just go back to work to make sure you’re not eating out of garbage cans by next month.
The public is apathetic, but it’s by design, if you don’t already know about Edward Bernays then I suggest looking him up and finding out how they control the public. This however feels vary familiar, there was a scandal in the 90s about Stingray devices being used illegally by guess who… fascist cops doing what the fascist propaganda taught them their whole life, get those “criminals” anyway you can, even if you have to become the highest order of criminal scum to do so, all those cop shows conditioned those fascists just right (no pun intended.) In other words this is just business as usual. Here’s a link to Wikipedia about Stingray devices if you’re interested. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_use_in_United_States_law_enforcement
I’m sorry but this is just not true.
Any given criminal case these days is lousy with cellebrite reports.
I like this part…
For example, by including a specially formatted but otherwise innocuous file in an app on a device that is then scanned by Cellebrite, it’s possible to execute code that modifies not just the Cellebrite report being created in that scan, but also all previous and future generated Cellebrite reports from all previously scanned devices and all future scanned devices in any arbitrary way (inserting or removing text, email, photos, contacts, files, or any other data), with no detectable timestamp changes or checksum failures. This could even be done at random, and would seriously call the data integrity of Cellebrite’s reports into question.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
This request concerns legal experts who argue that powerful technology like the one Cellebrite builds and sells, and how it gets used by law enforcement agencies, ought to be public and scrutinized.
“We don’t really want any techniques to leak in court through disclosure practices, or you know, ultimately in testimony, when you are sitting in the stand, producing all this evidence and discussing how you got into the phone,” the employee, who we are not naming, says in the video.
“The results these super-secretive products spit out are used in court to try to prove whether someone is guilty of a crime,” Riana Pfefferkorn, a research scholar at the Stanford University’s Internet Observatory, told TechCrunch.
“The accused (whether through their lawyers or through an expert) must have the ability to fully understand how Cellebrite devices work, examine them, and determine whether they functioned properly or contained flaws that might have affected the results.”
“And anyone testifying about those products under oath must not hide important information that could help exonerate a criminal defendant solely to protect the business interests of some company,” said Pfefferkorn.
“It’s super important to keep all these capabilities as protected as possible, because ultimately leakage can be harmful to the entire law enforcement community globally,” the Cellebrite employee says in the video.
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If the cops have it then the crims have it too. That’s the way it worlds. Every time.
Since criminals are no longer wearing jail stripes and black opera masks lets get more specific: Industrial spies are the ones who will steal your trade secrets and slush fund accounting records to assure that your business tanks and they get the juicy contracts.
National spies already have this gear, but so do our counter-espionage departments…hypothetically.
