“Almost every police department in the nation has a device called the Cellebrite, which is a device built for extracting data from phones, and it also has some capability to unlock phones,” EFF’s @cooperq told The @theverge. https://www.theverge.com/24199357/fbi-trump-rally-shooter-phone-thomas-matthew-crooks-quantico-mdtf
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@Hawaii @eff @cooperq @theverge GrapheneOS is a security-focused alternative smartphone operating system (Android variant), which claims to protect against Cellebrite (among other threats). Currently it only supports several Google Pixel devices; its developers say that it's because most other manufacturers don't take security seriously enough and often apply only the bare minimum of security patches.
