The exact circumstances around the search are not known. But activist Samuel Tunick is charged with deleting data from a Google Pixel before CBP’s Tactical Terrorism Response Team could search it.
You should read up on Celebrite. They most definitely can get into a wide variety of phones from a cold boot. GrapheneOS seems to be one of the only ones that make their job hard.
Here’s some charts from July last year. I don’t know if there’s any other leaked charts out there, but short answer is that your password doesn’t matter. Keep in mind that the images in the above link are a year and a half old, they can definitely crack updated OSs.
I thought that just means they can bypass the password limit and do a bruteforce, but they still need to do a bruteforce, I don’t think the key just just sitting there, right?
You should read up on Celebrite. They most definitely can get into a wide variety of phones from a cold boot. GrapheneOS seems to be one of the only ones that make their job hard.
I assume its because most people use 4 digit pins.
Can they crack a long passphrase?
https://stacker.news/items/616858
Here’s some charts from July last year. I don’t know if there’s any other leaked charts out there, but short answer is that your password doesn’t matter. Keep in mind that the images in the above link are a year and a half old, they can definitely crack updated OSs.
I thought that just means they can bypass the password limit and do a bruteforce, but they still need to do a bruteforce, I don’t think the key just just sitting there, right?
Sometimes they can, sometimes they can’t. It’s always a race.