Remember all the crap about back door access being needed to a phone’s OS to protect us … yup … crap.

FBI agents used technology from Cellebrite, a company well known among law enforcement agencies for helping them access data on phones seized or recovered in criminal investigations, to quickly access a cellphone they found with Crooks’s body, people familiar with the investigation told The Washington Post this week.

@JohnPhilpin Was it an iPhone?

@pratik actually a good point and good question - don't know, but we do know that Cellebrite can get into 'some' iPhones.

@JohnPhilpin Read somewhere that those are older iPhones or, rather, those with older iOSes. But this may be a bad day to suggest that updating your OS quickly is a good thing.

@pratik as of two days ago

@JohnPhilpin Yup. Guess that's what I read too. tbh, it's a constant race to stay ahead.

@pratik from @gruber

It was a Samsung

@JohnPhilpin Ah! Know which model?

@pratik I don’t .. he didn’t say

@JohnPhilpin they said it was an android

🔗 The full Gruber post

// @pratik

@mandaris fixed - thankyou