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Confiscated phones often have been confiscated for months and are therefore on a relatively old patch level. If at any point old vulnerabilities come out these
by Gasp0de 4y ago
Confiscated phones often have been confiscated for months and are therefore on a relatively old patch level. If at any point old vulnerabilities come out these can be used. Keeping the phones on and connected to a charger in the evidence lockers doesn't seem like too much work.
- jaywalk 4y ago> Keeping the phones on and connected to a charger in the evidence lockers doesn't seem like too much work. There's no way that's a standard procedure.
- Gasp0de 4y agoWhy? Seems pretty intuitive to me in a time where everything is encrypted.
- saratogacx 4y agoIf the phone is setup for automatic updates it'll restart within a month (most of the phones I've had do monthly security patches) and you'll be in a fresh boot state. You can't turn off the updates without first unlocking the phone giving you a rather limited window to attempt to exploit the device.
- djmips 4y agoWill it reboot if it's not on network?
- wolpoli 4y agoUpdates need network access. If the phone isn't on a network, then it won't reboot. Police can't really pop out e-sims, that means the police needs to keep the phone in an RF proof bag/work in an RF proof room.
- Gasp0de 4y agoWhich, again, wouldn't be too much work. Also, my Android phone does not update and reboot automatically.