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All that trouble becaused a bag conveniently "fell from a truck". All in all I'm really happy for all this.
by ASalazarMX 6y ago
All that trouble becaused a bag conveniently "fell from a truck". All in all I'm really happy for all this.
- ampdepolymerase 6y agoIndeed, how convenient. If it truly did fall off the truck right while he is on a walk then there is the possibility that is a rubber duckie attack. This is basically the equivalent of leaving a USB flash drive lying around. I hope the author took the necessary precautions when reverse engineering the device. Companies like cellebrite have deep connections to certain three letter communities that staging this sort of attacks trivial.
- CPLX 6y ago> If it truly did fall of the truck lol
- baby 6y agoSeeing reactions like GP’s I’m surprised at how many people don’t know this expression.
- ASalazarMX 6y agoI thought it was an euphemism because they couldn't reveal who gave it to them. Confessing it was stolen, even as an euphemism, is too blatant to be taken seriously IMO.
- f38zf5vdt 6y agoIf English is your second language, you may not have come across it. It's a very informal and infrequent idiom.
- baby 6y agoFWIW we have the exact same expression in French “c’est tombé du camion”
- CloselyChunky 6y agoDito for German: "vom Laster gefallen"
- bawolff 6y agoEven if you didn't, i think its pretty obvious from context.
- djoldman 6y agoI think we can be relatively confident that the connected machine was airgapped and perhaps run in a VM. Perhaps even in a faraday cage..
- boredpenguin 6y ago> (...) and perhaps run in a VM. One of the screenshots[0] shows the VMware Tools Service running, so yeah, looks like a virtualized guest. [0]: https://signal.org/blog/images/cellebrite-dlls-loaded.png https://signal.org/blog/images/cellebrite-dlls-loaded.png
- jacquesm 6y ago"falling off a truck" is slang for "was stolen".
- thayne 6y agoGiven the sort of business Cellebrite is in, they would probably still want to treat anything connected to it with an overabundance of caution.
- ASalazarMX 6y agoTIL: https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/fall+off+a+truck https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/fall+off+a+truck Edit: looking up a bit more, it seems like this idiom is used to denote goods sold for cheap because they were stolen. Like "Bob is selling genuine iPhones very cheap, I fear they fell from the back of a truck". Edit edit: I initially took it as "we won't tell how we got this", because I didn't know this idiom, but it seems several people agree with this interpretation. Not necessarily stolen, but obtained from an undisclosed source.
- dkjaudyeqooe 6y agoThat isn't quite right. Although it's commonly used to describe something that's been stolen, it's more generally used to indicate that the speaker doesn't want to talk about where it came from. That's how it's been used in this article.
- jjoonathan 6y agoI am happy to see the bag survived its most untimely truck tumble while remaining a e s t h e t i c a l l y - - - p l e a s i n g.
- daemin 6y agoWhat a sturdy bag it is!
- nealmcb2 6y agoI love Kim Zetter's tweet: Must have been a turnip truck https://twitter.com/KimZetter/status/1384936715769503745 https://twitter.com/KimZetter/status/1384936715769503745 That's a dig at the turnipesque savvy of Cellebrite, which royally stumbled into this. cf. https://www.dwt.com/blogs/privacy--security-law-blog/2015/03/chairman-wheeler-says-the-fcc-didnt-just-fall-off https://www.dwt.com/blogs/privacy--security-law-blog/2015/03... > FCC chair Wheeler said the FCC “didn’t just fall off the turnip truck.” Through CALEA, CPNI, and CSRIC, Wheeler said the agency has been working to protect consumer privacy.
- spinny 6y agoYup. Those things have way to "fell from a truck". Another win for the "fell from a truck" gang ;)
- batch12 6y agoI found that funny too. It sounds to me like a good way to end up with the device to analyze without being constrained by a contract or EULA prohibiting it.
- cheschire 6y agoYes, it's known as a euphemism. TFA just took the joke to hilarious extremes with the photos. https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/fell-off-the-back-of-a-truck.html https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/fell-off-the-back-of-a-t...
- spurgu 6y agoTFA? I know you're referring to Moxie (somehow) but I can't figure out the acronym.