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Cellebrite leak highlights how much more secure Pixel phones are with GrapheneOS (www.androidauthority.com)
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[–] otter@lemmy.ca 43 points 5 months ago

Cellebrite builds the forensic tools law enforcement uses to get data from locked phones. As reported by 404 Media, the leak came from someone who managed to join a private Microsoft Teams call between Cellebrite staff and a prospective customer. During the meeting, the uninvited participant took screenshots of what appears to be an internal ‘Android OS Access Support Matrix’ and then shared them on the GrapheneOS discussion forum.

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[–] HurlingDurling@lemmy.world 32 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Didn't know about duress password... Enabled

[–] Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 10 points 5 months ago

Same, can't believe I never read about it

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I wonder if someone will be able to actually remember that during duress

My home alarm has a duress password but I'm never able to remember it

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

It's good for when the dust settles, some time has passed and you're sat down in an interrogation room or court room and they compel you to enter or give up your pin. All you need to know until then is "I want a lawyer"

[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I just repeat my last two digits on my passcode at the end before hitting enter. Easy to remember.

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 months ago

Yep, seems like a no brainer for the privacy conscious - which is why it will never exist on mainstream mobile OS platforms.

In a similar vein, it's a good idea to encrypt your laptop/desktop devices and have a DBAN flash drive or other form of secure erase program ready (voiding the decryption key can be viable in a pinch).

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 24 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

How is it that Google, one of the largest, wealthiest corporations in the world, who make and sell pixels, can’t make them as secure as a group working for free with zero first support from the OEM?

Honestly at this point it feel’s purposeful.

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Why windows 11 silently and automatically sends back to Microsoft servers the decryption key for bitlocker?

Why WhatsApp is asking every fucking month to enable unencrypted "backups" on Google drive?

Users have the convenience of Easy data recovery but also someone else.

[–] sfjvvssss@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Do you have a source for the BitLocker thing? Can't find anything.

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Fun fact: tencent removed any kind of cloud backup from WeChat, even if that data would be so valuable for ai training. Or they could monetize it by having users pay for storage. Probably they got fed by too many government access requests. Btw I'm sure that the ccp is simply siphoning all the unencrypted chats (the app of course doesn't offer any kind of e2ee) at the server or network level and doing automatic "backups" in real time for every citizen

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 months ago

Can't vs won't.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Big businesses these days are staffed through nepotism instead of meritocracy. The ones working for free are actually competent.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 5 months ago

Once again I am happy that I use GOS :3

[–] sfjvvssss@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Now I just hope GOS improves on their communications and stops shitting on so many other projects while being super aggressive. Love using it but had to block all their social media channels.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 points 5 months ago

the point of pixel is so that GOOGLES AI can be trained on your datamined, and sold off.