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Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking

(arstechnica.com)
455 points akyuu | 3 comments | 30 Oct 25 23:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.665s | source
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gnarlouse ◴[31 Oct 25 21:47 UTC] No.45777074[source]▶
Wow. I was just thinking about jumping ship from iPhone to Pixel.
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dns_snek ◴[31 Oct 25 21:49 UTC] No.45777085[source]▶
All iPhones were vulnerable according to the last available iOS support matrix.
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runlevel1 ◴[01 Nov 25 01:24 UTC] No.45778494[source]▶
That's not quite correct, but you're not a million miles off: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24833832-cellebrite-...

To calibrate your sense of time, the iPhone 15 had been released in September 2023 and that doc is dated April 2024, so ~6 months.

And just for completeness, here was the Android doc that leaked at the same time: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24833831-cellebrite-...

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1. dns_snek ◴[01 Nov 25 06:18 UTC] No.45779616[source]▶
For iOS there's a slightly newer one released in July 2024 which indicated iPhone 15 support too: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/14344-cellebrite-premium-ju...
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2. kotaKat ◴[01 Nov 25 11:43 UTC] No.45780907[source]▶
Honestly seems like if you just stay on the latest-and-greatest you'll stay ahead of Cellebrite long enough.

I'll be amused when Apple finally drops a portless iPhone as the next step ahead.

(Apple already has their Qi2/Magsafe setup, and they already have been using 60GHz wireless USB for quite some time now internally with the Apple Watch for diagnostics and service management since Series 7.)

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3. dns_snek ◴[01 Nov 25 12:22 UTC] No.45781087[source]▶
> Honestly seems like if you just stay on the latest-and-greatest you'll stay ahead of Cellebrite long enough.

I don't know, even the latest and greatest is eventually cracked, or they can just hold your device in evidence until the capability is there a few weeks (or months) later.

Furthermore by using an official OS from a vendor like Apple (or Google, Samsung) there's always the possibility that they could target your device with a specially crafted update, especially if you're in really big trouble.