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According to the New York Post:
Cellebrite, an Israeli firm that supplies "forensics tools" to agencies around the world, including US law enforcement, appears to have suffered a serious hack. Motherboard claims to have 900GB of Cellebrite data, supplied to it by an anonymous hacker. Among other things, the data reportedly shows that the Israeli firm has been selling its technology to regimes known for their human rights abuses, including Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Russia.
According to Motherboard:
The breach is the latest chapter in a growing trend of hackers taking matters into their own hands, and stealing information from companies that specialize in surveillance or hacking technologies.
Cellebrite is an Israeli company whose main product, a typically laptop-sized device called the Universal Forensic Extraction Device (UFED), can rip data from thousands of different models of mobile phones. That data can include SMS messages, emails, call logs, and much more, as long as the UFED user is in physical possession of the phone.
New York Post Again:
Cellebrite is best known for its rumored involvement in helping the FBI crack the San Bernandino shooter's iPhone, as Apple fought an order to assist through the courts. In addition to helping the FBI in that case, Cellebrite sells forensics devices and software to dozens of US law enforcement agencies and police departments.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @10:14AM
If I were to make a weighted index of human rights abusers in the world, then Israel would get the most points. USA would be a close second.
Then much lower in the index would come the rest of the world.
In other words, Israel is pure evil. Their pet dog USA is right next in the list of most evil.
Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Russia
Those nations are far down in the index of human rights abusers, but the MSM media barks a lot against those nations, so you hear about them more often. Just because its on the news does not make it so.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @11:17AM
There's no point in running stories about Cellebrite! You can't name and shame pure evil!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @10:44PM
Oh, yes, intentionally bombing civilians with barrel bombs from helicopters, and purposefully returning to attack the same position in order to kill rescue workers does put one FAR down that list. Plus doing this on the world stage as well and saying "fuck you" when called out on it.
What a fucking idiot you are. Or an RT editor.