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      5 days ago

      Well they might charge you with “Obstruction of Justice” instead. Then plug it in some cellebrite device and boom, unlocked.

      Best way to not have to deal with stuff like this is just to not have the incriminating evidence in the first place. If you are, for example, doing a protest, only chat with contacts in a safe place, then wipe chat logs every time, any data you wish to keep should be encrypted then uploaded anonymously via VPN/Tor and wiped from local storage. Hide the fact that such data exists so you wouldn’t have a scenario where the government is trying to get you to give them the data, since they dont even know what data exists. Plausable deniability.

      Edit: Those apps I’ve linked is still a good idea since “Destruction of Evidence” is probably a lesser charge than something like “Rioting”.

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        3 days ago

        Cellebrite struggles with iPhones already, this reboot is part of the cat and mouse game they’re playing

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          That’s what they say. I mean the news literally base this off the FBI’s own words, so there’s no way for us to tell if they actually manage to break the encryption but then turns around that say “the encryption is too strong”. Besides, iOS is closed source.

          Intelligence agencies have made this “Anom Phone” that is this supposed encrypted phone that drug dealers and various criminals used to communicate, turned out to be a honeypot.

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            3 days ago

            I’ve used cellebrite before.

            Anecdote of 1 for you, iOS is a pain in the ass.

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              3 days ago

              There are different versions.

              One is where they sell the cellebrite device to law enforcement.

              Another where the cellebrite device remain in control of cellebrite, and law enforcement has to send the phone to cellebrite.

              Unless you actually work for cellebrite and got access to their more advanced tools, which then I doubt they would let you share the details of since that must be breaking some non-disclosure agreement.

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                Yes, I am well aware.

                shipping a phone to them or waiting for the tech to arrive, that transit time, is what my mind went to immediately when this feature was introduced.

                The phones are significantly more difficult to get into after the reboot.

                I’m disclosing absolutely nothing.