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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Shoot. I have a Samsung phone. I wonder if I can put Blackberry security on it?
My phone is unlocked with no password.
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They reported he used two phones and only looked up Church hymns.
GLAD I ONLY HAVE A LAND LINE—————
they need a system that unlocks any phone for the FBI use. This is ridiculous.
“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.
They didn’t ask the NSA? I guess they want to be able to delete any FBI undercover agent phone numbers.
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).
Android is not impressive. It does not surprise me at all to learn that it is not secure.
You’re only a single data dump away, like the rest of us. No matter what Apple tells you.
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.
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
Now they can erase anything that incriminates them.
Whew!
bookmark.
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.
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