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> It is well documented that there is no cell phone that cannot be unlocked. Citation needed?
by throwaway613834 9y ago
> It is well documented that there is no cell phone that cannot be unlocked.
Citation needed?
- reaperducer 9y agoFor iPhones: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2018/02/26/government-can-access-any-apple-iphone-cellebrite/#6c3c2cb7667a https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2018/02/26/gover... For every other phone, Google is your friend.
- tedunangst 9y agoSo that's what's happening? The TSA takes your phone, teleports it to cellebrite who unlock and clone it in ten minutes, then they teleport it back?
- John_KZ 9y agoCan you think of a better location to place a phone's unlocking and cloning machine than the TSA's examination office? Do they really need to teleport the phone?
- mikeash 9y agoIt's unlikely to be a push-button machine. It's more likely to be a complicated procedure involving desoldering chips and placing components in specialized harnesses, which would be difficult to replicate at an airport.
- komali2 9y agoThat's a difficult thing to cite, I would say it's more along the the lines of the saying "There's no such thing as non-buggy code" or "there's no un-hackable system." I get it, burden of proof. The blanket statement by OP also doesn't consider the ol' "baseball bat" ceiling of hacking strategies - at what point is it easier to just break someone's fingers until they tell you what you want to know? (don't break someone's fingers that's not good)