Why projects like PinePhone matter – feedback and encouragement

[Gary2003]

Only Pinephones (and maybe Librem) are confirmed incompatible with Cellbright if the boot flash is encrypted.

Apple and Android are born compromised, for the same reasons you can jailbreak or root locked bootloader phones, so can anyone else.

https://cellebrite.com/en/home/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellebrite

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellebrite_UFED

The UFED (Universal Forensics Extraction Device) is a product series of the Israeli company Cellebrite, which is used for the extraction and analysis of data from mobile devices by law enforcement agencies.[1]
Features

On the UFED Touch, it is possible to select extraction of data and choose from a wide list of vendors. After the data extraction is done, it is possible to analyze the data in the Physical Analyzer application.[14]
The Cellebrite UFED Physical Analyzer supports the following features:[14]

• Extract device keys which can be used to decrypt raw disk images, as well as keychain items.
  
• Revealing device passwords, although this is not available for all locked devices
  
• Passcode recovery attacks
  
• Analysis and decoding of application data
  
• Generating reports in various formats such as PDF and HTML
  
• Dump the raw filesystem for analyzing it in other applications
  

What's the plan? Are we throwing away all our iPhones and Samsungs, and is everyone getting a PinePhone? That’s the safest bet for our mission...



Mia on the Pine64 website, placing an order for the whole crew...