Signal's Founder Hacked a Notorious Phone-Cracking Device

This week, Apple’s spring product launch event was marred by a ransomware attack against one of its suppliers, Quanta Computer. Fast forward to this week, when Signal founder Moxie Marlinspike published a blog post that details his apparently successful efforts to hack a Cellebrite's phone-cracking device. Marlinspike suggests that by corrupting Cellebrite hardware, one could meddle with the data untraceably, casting a shadow on the company's forensic reports going forward. The security of Apple's iOS App Store has taken center stage in recent months, as video game developer Epic challenges the company's business model and Congress continues to probe any antitrust implications. The extent to which facial recognition technology like Clearview AI's and location data churned out by apps on your smartphone have fueled law enforcement efforts in recent years has spiraled out of control.