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by _trampeltier 695 days ago
A bit oftopic but when last week came out, Cellebrite could open the Trump shooters phone, there was a PDF, they can brute force all android phones since from Android 7 or newer. What changed there? Why can they brute force all newer versions?

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24833831-cellebrite-...

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Android 7 is when Google switched from dead simple full-"disk" encryption to per-file hackery with complicated key management. Basically the whole data encryption scheme changed.