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Can courts trust evidence collected by Cellebrites mobile device forensic tools? The question was posed late last month by Signal, the messaging app that is a recent new target for Cellebrites data-collecting tools for law enforcement. Signals founder, Moxie Marlinspike, contended that software vulnerabilities found in Cellebrites tools could be used to tamper with evidence. As a result, one lawyer has already filed a motion for a new trial. (see But Marlinspike isnt the only person who has t...

Signal Founder Says Cellebrites Forensics Tools Flawed Twitter Get Permission Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike speaking at "The Cryptographers Panel" at RSA Conference 2018 (Photo: Mathew J. Schwartz/ISMG) Law enforcement agencies use digital forensics tools from the Israeli company Cellebrite to gain access to locked mobile devices and extract data as part of evidence-gathering during the course of an investigation. But in a shot across the bow to the vendors business model, Moxie Marlinspik...