Grapheneos Proves Resilient Against Cellebrite Forensic Tools
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GrapheneOS has demonstrated resilience against Cellebrite's forensic tools, highlighting its strong security features, and sparking discussion on the implications for digital privacy and security.
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While most points raised are true the way it's laid out is awful, it's just utter contempt of readers.
And on topic: yes, cellebrite admitted it (thread about that is a nice rrad), but the autocomplete generating the "article" failed to notice that even the unlocked phone doesn't get fully pwned.
Read it yourself: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/27698-new-cellebrite-capabi...
Wonder if this helps against forensic tools. Also wonder why would they not disable USB port for anything besides charging or even go as extreme as disabling it altogether and only allow wireless charging.
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/105120
Even when brute force attacks can be loaded onto their phones, they are incredibly slow (like 75 attempts per day) and very unlikely to get a 6 digit code. Lockdown probably helps prevent a brute force from being loaded, but it’s mostly moot currently.
And most recent devices can’t load a brute force client regardless of lockdown.