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Police or Cellbrite for hacking and/or boobytrapping.

• akerl_ 5y ago
  I feel like you’re conflating “charging” and “suing” here. Cellbrite would sue, and in doing so would need to allege damages. Given that they wrote code to extract data from Signal, and Signal gave public warning that doing so might be dangerous, it seems implausible they’d be able to claim damages. “Boobytrapping” in physical space usually becomes problematic when it’s a surprise: if you hop over my fence to rob me and are injured by land mines in my yard, I’m at fault. If I have signs saying “Warning, this yard is full of dangerous objects, do not hop the fence, you may be harmed”… dramatically less so. “The police” generally don’t sue, The State charges. And for the state to charge someone with a crime, it can’t just vaguely be “hacking”, it would need to be a violation of a criminal statue. At best, this would perhaps be tampering with evidence? Because I doubt you’d find a jury willing to convict someone of a violation of, for example, the CFAA, for activity that they undertook solely within their own app, which did not initiate any activity until scanned by Celebrite’s tool