Cellebrite buys Corellium to help cops bust phone encryption

Cellebrite has announced a $170 million deal to buy Corellium, bringing together two companies that have made names for themselves by helping law enforcement break into encrypted devices. Corellium is an oddity in the security world, having faced down Apple in a multi-year legal battle that saw the iGiant first try to buy the …

[Anonymous Coward]

And their first customer

Will be Trump's Gestapo aka ICE. With all those people with evidence of zero affiliation to TrenDeAgua or other gangs still being deported their phones will be hacked and evidence planted.

This will all make it easier for Trumpf to declare Marital Law, suspend Habeous Corpus and the Constitution and everyone will be suspect and the calls for 'Papers or Else' will be heard all over the USA.

Forget the 2026 midterms or the 2028 POTUS elections. The act of voting will soon become a memory for citizens of the USA. If you can get out... do it now.

[Bearshark]

Re: And their first customer

You, sir/madame, are a lunatic. No wonder you posted this anonymously. You don't sound like a US citizen, so your comments tell me you don't understand the United States. Americans have guns... lots of them, and most patriots will use them against a tyrannical government to cleanse the tree of liberty with their blood and the tyrants. (parsed from one of Thomas Jefferson's quote)

I clicked on the article because I was curious about how these entities can break phone encryption and participate in a public-private partnership with the fuzz. Your comments don't even speak to the spirit of the article.

~Bearshark

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: And their first customer

> You don't sound like a US citizen, so your comments tell me you don't understand the United States.

You most definitely sound like a (certain type of) US citizen, so your comment (singular) tells me you don't understand the history of the United States.

> Americans have guns... lots of them

True. But nothing to boast about, given they aren't in the service of a well organised local militia.

> and most patriots will use them against a tyrannical government to cleanse the tree of liberty with their blood and the tyrants. (parsed from one of Thomas Jefferson's quote)

You've shown one (count them one) instance of doing that against a distant "tyrannical" (that was a nice bit of rabble-rousing at the time) government, where the complaint was they:d not ben voted in by yourselves. And you had the help and encouragement of outside forces, mainly French, to get that far.

The idea that your "patriots"[1] will rise up en masse and succeed, just because they have their own guns, is a silly little fantasy. Whilst you hold onto that idiocy, you are ignoring reality and walking yourself over a cliff - take your pick which one.

[1] Strange usage there - how can you be a patriot if you stage an uprising against your own countrymen? Let alone those whom you voted in.

[Anonymous Coward]

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Quote: "...helping law enforcement break into encrypted devices..."

Don't you just love this! First we have NSO/Pegasus breaking "into encrypted devices". Then we get news that there are other a**holes breaking "into encrypted devices".

Some of us out here simply DO NOT USE Signal or WhatsApp or Telegram!

We quite like our PRIVATE encryption! See sample. The NSO and Cellebrite or Corellium are free to let us know how the plain text actually reads!

6xSTedcxq9alebiD2nkZeLyRWzqb6HmXmJszsVmP6zSxY5wJANuPsri5CXSxUna7WfQD4h0FGx4P

snGvIhWf4T4HgFgfMbmBif6Z490dcbmJY3ORy3MX

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: DO NOT USE Signal or WhatsApp or Telegram!

And here in blighty, we have WhatsApp advertising on TV that they don't/can't read your messages. Yeah right. Pull the other one son.

I don't and have never used any of these so called Social Media platforms. anyone using my name is an impostor. The sooner they all die (with Twatter and TrothCential leading the pack) the world will be a far, far better place.

Notice how the clamour over TikTok has died a death since Trumpf came to power?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: DO NOT USE Signal or WhatsApp or Telegram!

> anyone using my name is an impostor

Oi! Stop posting using my name! Impostor!

[druck]

Re: Other Options!!

It says; "I am a utter cockwomble for posting lines of random characters on The Register's forums."

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Other Options!!

AC (in effect): "Ha-ha! You can't break my foolproof private encryption!"

TLA Agent (pulls out rubber hose): "We don't have to break your code. We only have to break you."