Cellebrite claims it can unlock any iPhone, many new Android phones for police

Re:Cellebrite claims it can unlock any iPhone, many new Andr... by puzzledobserver on Sunday June 16, 2019 @02:35AM (#20194148)

Wouldn't such an ability, by virtue of having been tested at least once, run afoul of the DMCA? Of course, it is an Israeli company and not an American one, and we have no proof that they have the ability or have ever exercised it, and IANAL, but I am curious.

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Re:Cellebrite claims it can unlock any iPhone, many new Andr... by pas on Sunday June 16, 2019 @04:48AM (#20194561)

DMCA? How, they don't do this to access protected music/movie files. Or is that statute also covers other kinds of data?

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Re:Cellebrite claims it can unlock any iPhone, many new Andr... by boredishBoi on Sunday June 16, 2019 @05:16AM (#20194637)

It is my understanding that under the DMCA the security measures themselves are copyrighted works and breaking them is a violation of the DMCA in and of itself. That’s why breaking DRM, even if it’s to access public domain works is still illegal.

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Re:Cellebrite claims it can unlock any iPhone, many new Andr... by javagram on Sunday June 16, 2019 @10:48AM (#20195710)

I don’t think that understanding is correct. Content in the public domain is not “protected under this title [copyright law]”

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201

> (A) No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title

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Re:Cellebrite claims it can unlock any iPhone, many new Andr... by Betelgeuse90 on Monday June 17, 2019 @04:47AM (#20201051)

AFAIK, they cracked the San Bernardino murderer's iPhone.

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