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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 (Joseph Cox/404 Media) (www.techmeme.com)

submitted 2 months ago by lemmydev2@infosec.pub to c/pulse_of_truth@infosec.pub

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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.

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[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

For those comming from All, Cellebrite is a product that the police use to unlock mobile phones during investigations.

[–] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Not iPhones running 17.4+, evidently

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 months ago

Correct, that is indeed what the article says.

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is there any way to harden Android devices as they are? Will another OS support full disk encryption?

[–] ExtravagantEnzyme@lemm.ee 16 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 months ago

That's interesting! Difficult to test, but in theory that should work. Unless they have a countermeasure for that.

[–] mrvictory1@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

From developer mode it is possible to change the defaults so it only charges instead of enabling data access, would this help?

[–] ExtravagantEnzyme@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

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.