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[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I worked for a private company in computer forensics. We had two machines, expensive machines, dedicated to accessing phones. I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess the FBI has something similar, if not better, at their disposal.

[–] Debs 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Were the machines always successful? If not, how often did they fail and why? Was there a difference between Android or iPhones?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Short of the device being damaged, they were successful 100% of the time. No difference between manufacturers and platforms.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/12848-claims-made-by-forensics-companies-their-capabilities-and-how-grapheneos-fares

Basically all phone, iphone and Android

This is an arms race, at the moment the crackers are in the lead.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There is probably some kind of backdoor into devices utilizing a recovery or diagnostic mode. Either that or AES has been broken for many years now

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

It's probably some set of zero days they're sitting on.