Signal founder: I hacked police phone-cracking tool Cellebrite
by Alex Hern Technology editor from Technology | The Guardian on (#5GYA4)
Moxie Marlinspike accuses surveillance firm of being linked to persecution' around the world
The CEO of the messaging app Signal claims to have hacked the phone-cracking tools used by police in Britain and around the world to extract information from seized devices.
In an online post, Moxie Marlinspike, the security researcher who founded Signal in 2013, detailed a series of vulnerabilities in the surveillance devices, made by the Israeli company Cellebrite.
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