If there's one thing I find the most galling about Cellebrite and the larger realm of state-sponsored hacking, it's that it's practically destroyed the ability to jailbreak devices. Pretty much everything on PPL/SPTM has no public jailbreaks to speak of anymore, at least not until way after the feds have thoroughly 0wned you first.
While some of this comes down to "Apple increased their security posture", a lot of it is that these exploits are $$$ now... and also that nation state actors only really care about data exfiltration. It's https://xkcd.com/1200/ all over again. The thing the nerds actually want is, well, not useless to the glowies, but it is definitely overkill.
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