These hardware and software tools collect forensic data from mobile phones: the texts, emails, and photos stored on the phone data regarding when the texts and emails were sent and where the photos were taken the locations-if location tracking tools are turned on-where the phone and, presumably, the user have been and when they were there. The report from Upturn, a Washington, D.C.-based civil society organization, zeroes in on law enforcement use of mobile device forensic tools (MDFTs). wrote in the Washington Post in 2015.īut a new report shows the widespread use by law enforcement of tools that circumvent those technical barriers. “New smartphone technology is rendering our laws insufficient to protect public safety,” Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. “Are we no longer a country governed by the rule of law, where no one is above or beyond that law?” then-FBI Director James Comey asked during a 2014 speech, referencing the bureau’s difficulty in accessing locked phones and encrypted communications. Law enforcement argued that the tools didn’t just keep out criminals it also prevented them from doing their jobs. Not everyone was enamored with the new protections. The end result? More than 90 percent of the data on the phone can be unlocked only by the user. Apple made the phone’s data even more secure with iOS 8 in 2014 after that update, more than 90 percent of the phone’s data was secured in this way. Beginning with the iOS 5 operating system in 2011, Apple encrypted sensitive files such as email and a user’s address book with a key that combined the user’s PIN with the phone’s hardware key. And later the criminals started selling instructional videos to other criminals, showing how to do these hacks themselves.Īpple’s response was to secure the phone’s data. Hackers in China used data from the devices to commit identity theft. But criminals are nothing if not creative, and it soon became clear that street theft was the least of Apple’s security problems. Apple worked to secure the phone, developing Find My iPhone. The device was small and expensive, and it could easily be grabbed from someone’s hand. Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007-and discovered it was a great target for street theft.
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