Infamous data extraction company Cellebrite is now advertising the ability to break into Apple's latest iOS (iOS 11) which includes the most recent iPhone X.
Over the last 5 years or so Apple has become one of the most aggressive companies to implement security in their mobile devices. Even macOS has come a long way from the laughable security it had during the famous I am a Mac and I am a PC campaign.
The Government has fought Apple again and again for their firm stance on security, something I have greatly appreciated despite my hate for the company as a business. It looks like Apple is losing the fight as Cellebrite has gone from being able to break into 3 to 5+ year-old phones to be able to break into the latest and current models.
Although this service is targeted towards law enforcement and government agencies, it isn't far-fetched to believe this will fall into the hands of more nefarious organizations. Many of the illegal hacking tools used by the NSA have been leaked to the general public.
Security is always in the hackers favor, they only need to succeed once to be successful whereas the victim has to be successful 100% of the time thousands of times a day. With the growth of crypto and digital identifies, this paints a very scary future for the digital world.
I am watching to see how Apple responds to this, but I don't have high hopes as the government is extremely powerful and influential and they will stop at nothing to gain and retain access to all personal devices.
Forbes has stated the Department for Homeland Security has already obtained data from an iPhone X to use in an arms-trafficking case back in November. The iPhone X was released November 3rd, around a month before Cellebrite claimed to access data from an iPhone X. The device was only in Cellebrite's possession for around two weeks.
As a citizen of United States, the future is very dark when it comes to security and privacy. It has been proven time and time again anything the government gains access to, equality malicious and less regulated organizations do as well.
There have been numerous cases reported at border airports of passengers being forced to unlock their phone and hand them over to security. It is highly likely they are copied and reviewed at a later date in more detail or assimulated into a central database.
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With this, it seems like there's no ideal security in existence whatsoever. Data should self-destruct when viewed by people other than the owner or after being consumed by the rightful receiver. It's not like the movies at all. HaHa!
I have my iPhone erase on 10 login failures, I prefer to have it 5 or even less.
It's good to know those features exist. The problem is very few people use such. Thanks for the info.
Nothing like a $1,000 phone being as secure as a $9.99 burner.
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Greaaaaaaat. Not that we have any privacy anyway, but it's like a Star Wars light/dark battle with technology now. And I don't count the TSA/NSA on the "light" side. 😩
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Its always a race between hackers who find exploits and those who fix them.
Generally, it’s a battle we’ve never won and never will. The hacking industry will always be at least one step ahead and are able to operate in a much more focused way.
I do think that for specific use cases the solution is available already for (mobile) devices. For for example crypto wallets and digital identities the Secure Enclave should be a great asset, especially as that tech (hopefully) continues to be further developed.
But it will most likely be something which will only be present in high end devices for the next few years.
But we shouldn’t delude ourselves. There’s no way we can ever fight, let alone win the fight, against the ridiculous amounts of money the national security services throw at it and also pay hacking companies.
Related: Palantir.
thanks for sharing a glimpse of the iPhone problem. I really appreciate your information this.
I still have an older flip phone. After this news, I am less likely to get a smarty phone.
smartphones more like dumbphones
It is a tricky balance between personal freedoms and safety but it seems like our government has been losing more and more balance here over time.
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I still don't how I'll get surprised by this, just pray you are not on the target list of NSA and the likes no matter what phone or gadget you're in can be hacked, that cellebrite is just making this know doesn't mean some Russian hackers aren't been doing it without making noise about it.
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Open source is the way to go, more people can review the code and check for vulnerabilities.
is a shame the lack of privacy (talking about airports and how they could ask you to reveal your data). Maybe in this age of crypto wallets we could refuse to give away passwords/unlocks on our devices and access to our information saying that is like getting access to our money not just our contact list, chats, etc?
the powers that be are a bunch of cowards... instead of telling us that they want to control every aspect of our lives, they go commit crimes and find boogie mans to blame for..... lee harvey oswald, osama bin laden...etc
we lost a lot after 9 11, lets find it back.
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Cellebrite is an Israeli company.
They succeeded to prove that the question is not if you're going to be hacked but when.
The answer is when someone will decide to do it.
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move. pack your bags and move to switzerland
Your write up has good content. It left for the company step up on its stance on how secure they want their product should be. Government will always meddle, but thank God for existing laws. Thanks a lot.
I have too work in to this, because am shocked about this, great post and hackers AR going wild.
thanks for sharing about i phone problem ...
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thank you very much for the info...
nice post buddy ... i prefer samsung tho...
As soon as I was tricked into upgrading to ios11 everything slowed down...apparently Apple is sorry about that, how nice of them, but everything is still very slow.