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Re:Zero click vulnerability in Apple’s macOS Mail by 2OEH8eoCRo0 on Thursday April 01, 2021 @06:39PM (#26667141)
>While the police managed to crack into Wong’s iPhone, which was locked with a four-digit passcode, they did not manage to access the contents of Chow’s Google Pixel phone using the force’s existing digital forensics tools, according to the court filing. Chow says her phone is still in police possession.

https://qz.com/1844937/hong-kongs-mass-arrests-give-police-a...

Re:Zero click vulnerability in Apple’s macOS Mail by pilsetnieks on Thursday April 01, 2021 @07:27PM (#26667560)
There is literally no other detail than the phone model name. For all we know it could be an ancient iPhone with a severely outdated OS and a brand new Pixel phone.

4-digit passcode hasn't been the default passcode option in iOS for a long time.

Re:Zero click vulnerability in Apple’s macOS Mail by 2OEH8eoCRo0 on Thursday April 01, 2021 @07:33PM (#26667597)
https://www.tomsguide.com/news/police-say-android-phones-are...

>This is supported by a look at smartphone cracking company Cellebrite’s effectiveness at breaking into different phones. Cellebrite can easily open up any iPhone X or earlier iPhone, but the same software used on a Google Pixel 2 or Galaxy S9 extracts very little information, and nothing at all in the case of the Huawei P20 Pro.

>That’s not to say that these Android devices are unbreakable. It's just that it requires a different, more labor-intensive process to get the data requested.

>The sheer variety of Android hardware and customized software builds makes it hard for phone-crackers to build a universal tool to break into Android phones. Meanwhile, a "jailbreak" released late last year permanently bypasses the security functions of every iPhone model from the iPhone 4s to the iPhone X.

This perfectly squares with what I personally know from law enforcement friends but I'm just an internet stranger.

Re:Zero click vulnerability in Apple’s macOS Mail by pilsetnieks on Thursday April 01, 2021 @07:44PM (#26667656)
It's called security through obscurity.
Re:Zero click vulnerability in Apple’s macOS Mail by 2OEH8eoCRo0 on Thursday April 01, 2021 @08:28PM (#26667937)
What? the iPhone's closed-source operating system?
Re:Zero click vulnerability in Apple’s macOS Mail by saagarjha on Thursday April 01, 2021 @09:09PM (#26668185)
No, more diversity for Android devices.