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Cellebrite asks cops to keep its phone hacking tech ‘hush hush’ | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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Cellebrite asks cops to keep its phone hacking tech ‘hush hush’ | TechCrunch::For years, cops and other government authorities all over the world have been using phone hacking technology provided by Cellebrite to unlock phones and In a leaked video, a Cellebrite employee urges law enforcement customers to keep their use of its phone hacking technology secret.

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[–] iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If the cops have it then the crims have it too. That's the way it worlds. Every time.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 2 years ago

Since criminals are no longer wearing jail stripes and black opera masks lets get more specific: Industrial spies are the ones who will steal your trade secrets and slush fund accounting records to assure that your business tanks and they get the juicy contracts.

National spies already have this gear, but so do our counter-espionage departments...hypothetically.