A 2020 investigation by the Washington, DC-based nonprofit organization Upturn found that more than 2,000 law enforcement agencies in all 50 states and the District of Columbia had access to mobile device forensic tools (MDTFs).
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Never keep anything on your phone that would require you to lock it.
I've never locked my phone.
It's true, I have their mom's phone number.
Son of a bitch! Stop calling so late!
This is the would be assassin's phone.
They gave that to the NSA or FBI Counter Intel guys who are hooked in with NSA.
Your phone is not going there.
However I would be on the lookout for that tech coming down the pipelines.
https://www.404media.co/leaked-docs-show-what-phones-cellebrite-can-and-cant-unlock/
Google Pixels are on the list but Graphene isn't.
Ayyyy graphene gang
The article is paywalled and the title doesn't make it clear which list you're talking about.
Its loginwalled not paywalled.
Ah my bad, I misread that.
For GrapheneOS full disk encryption, am I correct in understanding that the disk is encrypted when my phone is locked and decrypted when I unlock it? So I don't need to turn it off for it to be encrypted, as long as it's locked it's encrypted?
The disk is encrypted when the phone is off, and it is decrypted after you turn it on and authenticate locally.
Thanks, that makes sense.
It's always a contest between security tools and penetration tools. The problem comes when law enforcement can do this without fair protections of privacy, say if they can easily establish probable cause ( My detection dog is signalling you have illegal data on your phone ) or they are allowed to get a warrant post-hoc for an otherwise illegal search.
...Or they do the illegal search and then engage in parallel reconstruction e.g. make a fake story about following up on an informant.
Once the police just seize and crack your phone on a whim, then the state no longer respects your privacy and autonomy, which means you can no longer consent to be governed, rather are controlled by gunpoint (surveillance and use of force). This is one of the critical ingredients to autocratic rule, since it does a lot to neuter the capacity of discontent turning into revolt.
Sif that hasnt been the case for 20 years? Heh
Can they access Pixel 8 with GrapheneOS? I think not
Depends, is your bootloader unlocked ?
It shouldn't be when using graphene OS, the installation guide even instructs you to lock it after you're don't installing it.
Interesting, I know some phone reset to stock when relocking it
Locked and USB-C Off on firmware level
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