Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking

Post by wizardforhire » Fri, Oct 31, 2025, 10:27 PM UTC

Veserv wrote: post #43

windexh8er wrote: post #6

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Let's be very clear: this is still Google's choice. Google could build a phone that they can't be compelled to do anything to after the phone is sold to their customer, but Google alone chooses to not invest in the security of the phones they're selling to their customers. Because: what is good for the government is now equally good for Google. Do we not remember how Google immediately enabled TLS everywhere, interna…

Ah yes, Google could make a unhackable phone secure against state actors, they just do not feel like it. Not at all a problem that is viewed as so impossible that the very notion of it is beyond belief to the overwhelming majority of software developers. Google can just waltz on down to the corner store and get a jug of unhackable phone software. They just do not want to. The fact of the matter is that they are incap…

Post by stackskipton » Fri, Oct 31, 2025, 10:40 PM UTC

j1elo wrote: post #48

> Notably, the Pixel 10 series is moving away from physical SIM cards. Is it? I hadn't followed news of the new Pixels. I don't like the idea of modernizing this and going full eSIM. It will introduce a lot of new friction, somehow I don't doubt it. Just now arrived to Mexico for a quick trip and grabbed a prepaid SIM from a 7-11 in the airport. All quick and simple. I doubt things would be so seamless when not havin…

Post by dylan604 » Fri, Oct 31, 2025, 10:46 PM UTC

doodlebugging wrote: post #41

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> the Kmart Blue Light Special Hello fellow old timer. Do kids today even get this reference other than possibly just on context? My other favorite old store was a place called Gibsons where their stores signage had each upper case letter as an individual square. After it went under, more than one location became SBINGOS joints where first/last squares were no longer lit.

Another old-timer here who grew up with Gibsons. It was the only grocery store in town back in the days before WalMart invaded. Ammunition, camping gear, dry goods, garden supplies, farm and ranch supplies, blue jeans, shirts, ties, overalls, etc. They sold everything under one roof in a town of 2500. I thought they had all been swallowed up and shut down until I moved up here to N Texas and was surprised to find a G…

Post by neilv » Fri, Oct 31, 2025, 10:59 PM UTC

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Cellebrite is like the Kmart Blue Light Special of Israeli spyware, when you compare it to Greykey and NSO Group offerings. I would not use their capabilities as the be-all end-all.

> the Kmart Blue Light Special Hello fellow old timer. Do kids today even get this reference other than possibly just on context? My other favorite old store was a place called Gibsons where their stores signage had each upper case letter as an individual square. After it went under, more than one location became SBINGOS joints where first/last squares were no longer lit.

Post by ifh-hn » Fri, Oct 31, 2025, 11:04 PM UTC

IncreasePosts wrote: post #35

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https://grapheneos.org/features#duress :D

Use that and you'll get charged with destruction of evidence