It's a small box that allows law enforcement officials to crack into an iPhone 6s or an iPhone X. Will it be useful in the next year?
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It's a small box that allows law enforcement officials to crack into an iPhone 6s or an iPhone X. Will it be useful in the next year?
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Apple's still-popular iPhone 7 and 7 Plus are the new digital crime-fighting tools of the New York Police Department, replacing archaic Windows phones.
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Sources say the police department's IT head was the sole decider in picking up Microsoft's dying mobile platform in the first place.
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In the telecommunications world, it's been a painful week for emergency services access. TPS is off the grid while medics and fire take its 911 calls.
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A judge has lifted a press embargo has on court records that tell how the Royal Canadian Mounted Police cracked into encrypted BlackBerry communications. The methods were used in the investigation of a member of a New York mafia who was fatally shot in the outskirts of Montreal in 2011.The RCMP used “stingrays” — fake cell towers — to pick up on IMSI numbers, identifying the mobile subscribers that connected with it. Other information, like location, text and voice conversations, can also be extracted. Police claim they were only used to sort out suspects’ phones, ...
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Steve Notman is in plenty of trouble.First off, the repeat offender was caught on video allegedly selling meth in the city of Alliance, Ohio. Second, his phone has continued buzzing up with texts from customers. Third, he has poor taste in ringtones.All this we’re learning from the Alliance Police Department as it has put out a public plea on Facebook for people to stop ringing up Steve for your gram. Investigators are looking through the phone to see if they can arrest you.This story may have been a little more serious if we found out that it was all
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Chalk another loss up for Apple. And the FBI.Around the same time that the agency ordered the iPhone manufacturer to assist in decrypting an iPhone 5c that belonged to a gunman in the San Bernardino shootings, Los Angeles police were able to source a “forensic cellphone expert” to crack into an iPhone 5s that belonged to the wife ...
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Remember when Brazilian police snatched up a stolen Sony Xperia C5 Ultra demo unit? That was pretty cool. But what if police actually used smartphones in the line of duty instead of just seizing them? Police departments have been trying to push into the 21st century with their tactics and tools for … 15 years now. We haven’t reported much on the ...
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