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Trump shooter used Android phone from Samsung; cracked by Cellebrite in 40 minutes
9To5Mac ^ | July 18, 2024 | Chance Miller

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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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: android; assassin; cellebrite; cracked; phone; trump
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40 minutes is quite quick. Glad my family uses Apple iPhones.
1 posted on 07/18/2024 5:21:23 PM PDT by House Atreides
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To: House Atreides

Shoot. I have a Samsung phone. I wonder if I can put Blackberry security on it?


2 posted on 07/18/2024 5:23:20 PM PDT by Jonty30 (He hunted a mammoth for me, just because I said I was hungry. He is such a good friend. )
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To: House Atreides

My phone is unlocked with no password.


3 posted on 07/18/2024 5:25:20 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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They reported he used two phones and only looked up Church hymns.


4 posted on 07/18/2024 5:28:33 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Impeachment Inquiry is necessary since Deep State is blocking )
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To: House Atreides

GLAD I ONLY HAVE A LAND LINE—————


5 posted on 07/18/2024 5:29:43 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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they need a system that unlocks any phone for the FBI use. This is ridiculous.


6 posted on 07/18/2024 5:30:39 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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“Glad my family uses Apple iPhones.”

Expect the US government to be able to get into any electronic device you can obtain in the USA.

I assume every character I type is caught by the US government or a contractor.


7 posted on 07/18/2024 5:32:28 PM PDT by Brian Griffin (*** Help Trump, fund Republican candidates: https://ballotpedia.org/U.S._House_battlegrounds,_2024)
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Oh noes, if they crack my phone they'll see ten phone numbers, fourteen nazi memes. I'm buying spy encryption after I finish this post.

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8 posted on 07/18/2024 5:34:44 PM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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I can just see Trump reading about this


9 posted on 07/18/2024 5:35:04 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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They didn’t ask the NSA? I guess they want to be able to delete any FBI undercover agent phone numbers.


10 posted on 07/18/2024 5:35:45 PM PDT by KittyKares
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"they need a system that unlocks any phone for the FBI use. This is ridiculous."

You really love the surveillance state. You do realize that every back door developed for a government is vulnerable to hackers right?

What happens when what was once legal, like complaining about your government and campaigning for change, becomes a crime?

Your disdain for the privacy of others is leading you to want chains put on yourself. Read my tagline based on Ben Franklin saying (truncated to fit).

11 posted on 07/18/2024 5:37:36 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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1,2,3,4,5

https://youtu.be/a6iW-8xPw3k?si=kvHikP8QbFl2matx


12 posted on 07/18/2024 5:41:02 PM PDT by Organic Panic (SDemocrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: House Atreides

Android is not impressive. It does not surprise me at all to learn that it is not secure.


13 posted on 07/18/2024 5:44:25 PM PDT by TChad
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To: House Atreides

You’re only a single data dump away, like the rest of us. No matter what Apple tells you.


14 posted on 07/18/2024 5:45:31 PM PDT by Jonty30 (He hunted a mammoth for me, just because I said I was hungry. He is such a good friend. )
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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.


15 posted on 07/18/2024 5:47:59 PM PDT by Steven Scharf
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I only have a few phone numbers on mine, what were they looking for?

It is android I think, I cannot use that apple stuff


16 posted on 07/18/2024 5:49:45 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (I don't know what he said at the end of that sentence. i don't think he knows what he said either)
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To: House Atreides

Now they can erase anything that incriminates them.
Whew!


17 posted on 07/18/2024 5:52:32 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ("If you can remember the 60s....you weren't really there")
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IMG-1983

20 Mins Before!



18 posted on 07/18/2024 5:54:36 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Impeachment Inquiry is necessary since Deep State is blocking )
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To: House Atreides

bookmark.


19 posted on 07/18/2024 5:58:20 PM PDT by dadfly
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FBI grabbing my I-phone. Looking at it. Opens the screen. Copies everything. Then politely plugging it in to my charger because I’m down to 22%.

Sometimes it’s the user, not the hardware.


20 posted on 07/18/2024 6:02:29 PM PDT by Eastern Shore Virginian (Yea, I sometimes gild the lily.)
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