Signal’s hack of surveillance tech used by police could undermine Australian criminal cases

Revelations that information can be falsified on Cellebrite's devices throws into question its reliability in court rulings

Criminal lawyers could soon begin challenging a tool Australian police routinely rely on to extract messages, photos and other information from mobile phones for investigations after the discovery of security flaws that meant data could be falsified.

Last week Moxie Marlinspike, the founder of encrypted messaging app Signal, published a blog post outlining a series of vulnerabilities in Israeli company Cellebrite's surveillance devices.