Met Police to extract suspects' mobile phone data

Discussion in 'privacy general' started by Dermot7, May 17, 2012.

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  1. Dermot7

    Dermot7 Registered Member

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    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18102793

    + http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/may/17/met-software-mobile-phones
    http://www.radio-tactics.com/news/t...mobile-phone-data-extraction-capability/290/1
     
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    In other news, owner's of WhisperCore'd Nexus S' were heard laughing loudly at today's announcement. :D

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    They are the only ones......as WhisperCore is ,AFAIK,the only Android app that supports FULL disc encryption,and it's still not ported to other devices.....wonder wat will happen in the near future now that Twitter bought it a while ago......Ice cream Sandwich has buid-in encryption,but I bet that this 1 is easy to circumvent for Law Enforcement agencies....:( :thumbd:
     
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    In the UK, refusal to provide encryption keys is itself a crime (worth two years, if memory serves).
     
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    One reason (among many) I will never visit the UK; not that the US is too far behind with their draconian measures.
     
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    Yeah and it is my understanding the Cops don't even need a warrant. They can just walk up to you on the street at random and say "give me those crypto keys or go to jail."
     
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    I agree with you guy's about WC/Twitter...v0.5.5 was the last 'independent' version before the buy out. But It still works, as does Gingerbread 2.3.5, and always should. I'm not a 'phone guy', so I can't see wanting to upgrade for a long, long time. I've still got the installer, and a phone image. They *did* open source TextSecure, so who knows...but yeah, I don't trust Twitter either, and don't use it.

    Also, good call on UK law...forgot about that and was being US centric. Glad I don't live there.

    ICS encryption bases it's key on the screen unlock code IIRC. On 2.3.5 there is a max of 16 characters, I don't know about ICS, or how thoroughly it's been studied.

    Cellebrite puts out PR announcements about being able to bypass this and that, for certain models...but I don't know if that's for ICS encrypted phones, or just marketing hype...which companies are known to do, ie.

    "XYZ Company is proud to announce TrueCrypt Decryption!...as long as the computer is up and running and you can dump the memory...we can't do anything with a shut down computer or an unmounted container.

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