• xorollo@leminal.space
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    1 month ago

    Is this funky looking police tablet a real thing, and if so, what exactly is it doing?

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      1 month ago

      It is a real thing and they are produced by a company called Cellebrite. They are used in digital forensics. So if they get your phone confiscated or whatever, they can plug the funky looking police tablet and hack it.

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      1 month ago

      It’s real! It has a dozen different plugs for different phone models, and it can make a dump of the physical memory of the device, allowing you to read messages, files etc… without having to unlock it.

      I used to work for a PI who used it, he was an incompetent piece of shit but the tech was fun to play with.