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Border Force (ABF) is confiscating the phones of returning Australian travellers but declines to confirm if it is using Israel tech group Cellebrite to extract information. What’s the scam?
Returning Australian travellers have had their phones confiscated without a warrant. We put these questions to Home Affairs (which runs ABF).

 

Customs confiscates travellers’ phones. Does Israeli tech firm clone them?

by Michael West

 

This is the response:

Is the government using Israeli spyware to search every text and bit of data (even deleted) of its citizens without warrants? What happens to the data?
Israeli digital intelligence firm Cellebrite has extensive operational and financial ties across Australian law enforcement, state police forces, and federal government departments.
Cellebrite’s Universal Forensic Extraction Device (UFED) can bypass device security, crack passcodes, and extract mobile phone data, including texts, location history, and deleted items.

https://michaelwest.com.au/phones-seized-by-abf-cloned/

 

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Meeting Cellebrite - Israel's master phone crackers....

26 September 2016

BY Rory Cellan-Jones

 

It's an Israeli company that helps police forces gain access to data on the mobile phones of suspected criminals. 

Cellebrite was in the headlines earlier this year when it was rumoured to have helped the FBI to crack an iPhone used by the San Bernardino shooter. 

Now the company has told the BBC that it can get through the defences of just about any modern smartphone. But the firm refuses to say whether it supplies its technology to the police forces of repressive regimes.

Last week Cellebrite was showing off its technology to British customers. I was invited to a hotel in the Midlands, where police officers from across the UK had come to see equipment and software that first extracts data from suspects' phones, then analyses how they interact with others.

I was given a demo using a Samsung phone supplied by the company. It was running quite an old version of Android - 4.2 - but I was allowed to take it away for half an hour, put a password on it, and use it to take photos and send a text message.

When we returned, Yuval Ben-Moshe from Cellebrite took the phone and simply plugged it in via the charging socket to what looked like a chunky tablet computer. He explained that this was the kind of mobile unit the firm supplied to police forces for data extraction in the field. 

He pressed a couple of buttons on the screen and then announced that the phone's lock code had been disabled. 

"We can pretty much pull up any of the data that resides on the phone," he said. 

He then downloaded the photos I'd taken and the message I'd sent on to a USB stick - the evidence of my activities could now be in the hands of the police.

It was impressive, not to say slightly concerning, that the security on the phone had been so easily bypassed - although this was not a particularly advanced phone, nor had I used services such as WhatsApp, which provide added levels of security.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37441109?ysclid=mt0ii1a3ly986258990

 

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