Joseph Cox / 404 Media: Leaked docs show Cellebrite couldn’t forcibly unlock any iPhone running iOS 17.4 or newer as of April 2024; most of the listed Android devices could be unlocked  —  The leaked April 2024 documents, obtained and verified by 404 Media, show Cellebrite could not unlock a large chunk of modern iPhones.

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    4 months ago

    Is there any way to harden Android devices as they are? Will another OS support full disk encryption?

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      4 months ago

      GrapheneOS has a feature which makes the USB-c port inactive unless the phones unlocked. I’d think this would be a preventative for cellebrite.

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        4 months ago

        That’s interesting! Difficult to test, but in theory that should work. Unless they have a countermeasure for that.

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        4 months ago

        From developer mode it is possible to change the defaults so it only charges instead of enabling data access, would this help?

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          Sounds very similar to the settings option I referenced. Since I use my phone for music in my car via USB-C, it’d would prevent me from playin tunes and adding more music to my library. So I just set it to need to be unlocked for any data transfer. But this could do the job too I’d think.