Live in the US? Better check what you keep in your phone before YOUR NEXT ARREST!
Police now routinely crack and extract all phone data from arrestees.
If you are of legal age in the USA, chances are, you've had at least one "run-in with the law". This may have been something trivial such as a traffic violation, or a summons for drinking a beer in the park, or maybe you were kidnapped and imprisoned for a time.
With the statistics regarding incarceration in the US being as abysmal as they are, year over year, its no surprise that these "run-ins" have become bolder and more invasive.
The linked article in the top of this post is a fascinating read, short but informative, presenting the hard evidence of just where this trend of cracking into citizens' phones is headed.
Synopsis : The major provider of mobile forensic tools is the Israeli firm Cellebrite, who made headlines when the FBI revealed that they'd used a Cellebrite tool to crack the San Bernadino shooters' phones, and then again when a hacker dumped 900GB worth of internal Cellebrite info, revealing that the company routinely repackaged hacking tools from the darkweb and sold them to police departments without first verifying that these weren't leaking data to third parties or otherwise creating risks for their users and their targets.
These developments are occurring simultaneously as the Senate is voting on HR 2433, a bill to, and I quote; "To direct the Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Intelligence and Analysis to develop and disseminate a threat assessment regarding terrorist use of virtual currency".
If you are traveling within, to, or from, the United States of America, protect your electronic devices.
Don't keep incriminating images or texts in your history. Clear your browsing data and cookies.
If you have sensitive information or something you feel will earn you a Fourth Amendment violation from US Federal Goon Squad employees, consider removing the battery and SHIPPING the device via mail. Yes, extreme, but this is the kind of world we live in today.
Stay alert! Stay safe!
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