{"id":1345,"date":"2021-05-01T20:44:47","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T18:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/01\/how-the-hacking-of-surveillance-tech-used-by-police-could-undermine-australian-criminal-cases\/"},"modified":"2021-05-01T20:44:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T18:44:47","slug":"how-the-hacking-of-surveillance-tech-used-by-police-could-undermine-australian-criminal-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/01\/how-the-hacking-of-surveillance-tech-used-by-police-could-undermine-australian-criminal-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"How the hacking of surveillance tech used by police could undermine Australian criminal cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Revelations that information can be falsified on Cellebrite\u2019s devices throws into question its reliability in court rulings<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Last week Moxie Marlinspike, the founder of encrypted messaging app Signal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/apr\/22\/signal-founder-i-hacked-police-phone-cracking-tool-cellebrite\">published a blog post<\/a> outlining a series of vulnerabilities in Israeli company Cellebrite\u2019s surveillance devices.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/may\/02\/how-the-hacking-of-surveillance-tech-used-by-police-could-undermine-australian-criminal-cases\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/85caab568e91072eb02dab72608b89613b52a3b0\/0_169_3500_2100\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=7a2e841d6ec966cd889fcee74f68a4d3\" title=\"How the hacking of surveillance tech used by police could undermine Australian criminal cases\" \/>Revelations that information can be falsified on Cellebrite\u2019s devices throws into question its reliability in court rulings<br \/>\nCriminal 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.<br \/>\nLast week Moxie Marlinspike, the founder of encrypted messaging app Signal, published a blog post outlining a series of vulnerabilities in Israeli company Cellebrite\u2019s surveillance devices. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revelations that information can be falsified on Cellebrite\u2019s 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 &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/01\/how-the-hacking-of-surveillance-tech-used-by-police-could-undermine-australian-criminal-cases\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How the hacking of surveillance tech used by police could undermine Australian criminal cases<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}