A reader writes regarding Cellebrite:
Oh, it’s even more interesting. Cellebrite sells their software to anyone with money, because of course they do. Do angry ex-boyfriends and redneck sheriffs would qualify if they had the cash, certainly larger law enforcement agencies in the US. But even better is that Signal took some “exception” to being included in the software and data that Cellebrite’s products could crack. One of the leaders at Signal posted a nice blog post taking them to task, but more importantly, he mentioned how Signal would now ship with random blocks of data that were neither used by the app or would have any effect on the mobile device on which the app resided. Implied in that description, however, is how those blocks of data would hack Cellebrite’s software, and do as-yet unspecified things — but clearly once in, could do anything, like corrupt the veracity of all Cellebrite data extraction from that device.
In short, Signal +10, Cellebrite, 0.
Cellebrite is evil, amoral, greedy, stupid, and incompetent.
A selection of attributes which often go together.
