Re:Cellebrite Claims It Can Unlock Any iPhone
by unstatusthequo on Friday June 28, 2019 @01:09PM
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This is partly why being on iOS betas might be good personal mitigation. They may not have immediate capability on any particular iOS beta. The exploit may or may not exist, or their code would need to be updated to properly handle it. So, to me, it makes sense to stay ahead of their development cycle and avoid a threat if you have a reason to think law enforcement might want your phone contents.
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Or, more likely, you open yourself up to programmer error and easier-to-find exploits since the software hasn't been properly tested since you are doing that for them.
On the other hand the people developing these hacks haven't had as long to find any new vunls so you're really only potentially vulnerable to old hacks.
Re:Cellebrite Claims It Can Unlock Any iPhone
by jstarfish on Friday June 28, 2019 @02:16PM
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Beta software is by nature buggy and less-tested. An aggressive update schedule leaves you vulnerable to regressions or other exploitable trivialities. We don't run beta code in production for a reason, nor should anybody whose freedom is at stake.
Whether or not local LE has immediate capability, if you're wanted for capital murder and they can't break your phone the case does not stall, they ship the phone off for analysis. Cellebrite may (or may not) discover a new 0-day just for you.
Your phone is more damning than being caught with a cache of munitions. A stockpile of fertilizer and blasting caps can be argued as circumstantial, but phones often contain the evidence that betray intent-- a search query, a text message, an email.