Posted on 07/18/2024 5:21:23 PM PDT by House Atreides
Earlier this week, the FBI announced that it had accessed the locked phone of Thomas Matthew Crooks, the man who opened fire at a Trump rally last Saturday. A new report from Bloomberg today reveals more details about this process and the phone used by Crooks.
After Saturday’s Trump rally shooting, the FBI said on Sunday that it had been unsuccessful in unlocking Crooks’ phone. The phone was then sent to the FBI lab in Quanitco, Virginia, and on Tuesday the bureau confirmed that it had successfully unlocked the phone in question
Until today, however, we had no indication whether Crooks had used an iPhone or an Android phone, nor did we know specific details about the process.
Bloomberg reports today that the shooter used a “newer Samsung model that runs Android’s operating system.” The FBI’s initial attempt to unlock the phone on Sunday involved using Cellebrite software to bypass or identify the phone’s passcode.
When that initial effort failed, the FBI turned directly to Cellebrite for help unlocking the Samsung device. Cellebrite then gave the FBI access to “additional technical support and new software that was still being developed.”
With the new software from Cellebrite, the FBI was subsequently able to unlock the phone in 40 minutes.
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They were able to crack immediately once they had permission to try.
The other day we had a company that did secure shedding come and shred stuff. There was one bin full of stuff there was not a key for.
I asked if I could crack it, but was denied permission.
“ It was over a day to unlock it. Saying 40 minutes is very bogus. They were able to get in the next day only after using higher tech stuff then they already had.”
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“using higher tech stuff than they already had”. Actually they already had the “higher tech” version… it just wasn’t located ln their local office. I guess they thought they’d give an older version (which they had locally) a shot… which didn’t pan out.
Know them, they know their stuff.
Yes, I know. I was going to talk to you about that.
Same here and it sits in the house 90% of the time. It’s not attached to my hip or in my hand 24rs a day. If I lost it I’d lose some pics but that’s about it.
Seems to me that it means they had 24 hours to cover their tracks. Am I on Free Republic? I’m surprised no one else has posted this hypothesis.
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