The recent federal raid on the home of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson isn’t merely an attack by the Trump administration on the free press. It’s also a warning to anyone with a smartphone.
Included in the search and seizure warrant for the raid on Natanson’s home is a section titled “Biometric Unlock,” which explicitly authorized law enforcement personnel to obtain Natanson’s phone and both hold the device in front of her face and to forcibly use her fingers to unlock it. In other words, a judge gave the FBI permission to attempt to bypass biometrics: the convenient shortcuts that let you unlock your phone by scanning your fingerprint or face.-
It is not clear if Natanson used biometric authentication on her devices, or if the law enforcement personnel attempted to use her face or fingers to unlock her devices. Natanson and the Washington Post did not respond to multiple requests for comment. The FBI declined to comment.
Why? Apple and Google will just unlock it for them later.
Yep, unless you are using grapheneOS, Lineage, Fairphone, Jolla, … you are screwed
Do you mean e/is? Fairphone is hardware, but uses either e/os or android
right, E/OS option
Yeah but you might as well make them work for it.
It might save the next guy because they don’t have time.
Didn’t apple go to war with the FBI over exactly this? Or did I miss where they changed their tune.
Yeah. Like 10 years ago. Not sure they would have the same stance now. MS just bent over backwards to give out bitlocker keys.
What are you basing this on? Anyone who can do research knows bitlocker-locked drives are recoverable with a Microsoft account, meaning MS hold the encryption keys and can hand them over to LE. That’s not a new thing. Apple offers similar functionality to make devices unlockable with an iCloud recovery option but it’s not mandatory. Do you have proof they’re ‘giving out’ encryption keys otherwise?