Federal investigators are analyzing device’s content, although it is unclear how agency gained access
The FBI has gained access to the phone of the suspected gunman who opened fire on Donald Trump’s rally and is analyzing the device’s contents, the agency stated in a press release on Monday afternoon. The shooting, which killed one audience member and left Trump bleeding from one ear, is being investigated as an assassination attempt.
Authorities have been working to determine the motive behind the attack at Trump’s campaign rally on Saturday, but no clear picture has yet emerged. The gunman, identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks by the FBI, was shot and killed in the incident.
Federal investigators announced on Sunday that they had obtained Crooks’s cellphone, but had issues with bypassing its password protections to access the data within. FBI investigators then shipped the phone to a lab in Virginia, where agents successfully gained access, per the bureau’s press release.
phone model?
Asking the real questions here
I think it was an apple.
Hopefully they don’t keep it classified. Maybe one of his friends got a “shooter likes this” message?
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Do you mean like an eye tracking system for headsets in wt? I’ve always just used vr if I wanted that capability.
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Yeah FRP unlock for a while was definitely bypassable on several phones, I unlocked a few that way. Not sure if it is still possible now, haven’t bothered tinkering. 😅
Anyone know what kind of phone they reported they cracked? This should bring fear to anyone who cares even a little about privacy.
Otherwise, it will become normal to question why you take a shit with the door closed (what are you hiding in there?) slippery slopes and what-not.
There’s devices sold to law enforcement that will allow them access to most phones by plugging them in. Believe it or not, Israel is the biggest exporter of exploits and hacks.
Unless you please provide sources, I don’t fucking believe a word anyone says on the internet, and assume you are full of shit. Apologies if I sound rude, but I hate how people say shit like what you say and we all simply must take your word for it.
This was big news not that long ago. Pegasus spyware created by the Israeli NSO group.
They discover or buy zero day exploits and rather than telling the manufacturer about them they incorporate them into their software and sell to governments around the world
Pegasus was mainly about remote code execution but you can bet your bottom dollar they also have shit for opening phones in their posession
You sound rude cause you’re trying to. There were plenty of ways to write that without sounding like a dick.
There’s a fun podcast called darknet diaries that covers this kind of thing.
I need to start listening to that podcast. Seems right up my alley.
People posted multiple sources so now you really just sound like a dick, even if you weren’t intending to, unless you were intending to.
It doesn’t matter. If a nation state is a wants access, they’re gaining access.
It’s probably an exploit from that Israeli cyber company that I forget the name of.
Cellebrite is the name, I think.
Or are you thinking about pegasus?
NSO Group I was thinking of. They make Pegasus.
Aaah right. I confused the company name with the product name thanks!
both of those are israeli
On the scale of privacy concerns, anything that starts with “they took physical possession of my device” ranks pretty low on my list.
Any (western designed) phone. It doesn’t matter. All your data belongs to us. Them.
Investigators couldn’t get in with 1234, so they shipped it to their lab to try 5678
Wonder if this was one of the latest flagships or something older
Not 000000?
Bro forgot to turn off his phone before they shot him.
If he had fingerprint unlock it would be pretty easy to get in considering they have access to his fingers. Facial recognition… less successful in this case.
Gotta turn the phone off so it makes you actually log in.
On my pixel the pin required lock is up vol and power > lockdown.
Lmao. I don’t restart enough to have realized that’s an option. My failsafe was to chuck it so it restarts…
I do have my Nexus One hanging out somewhere in storage. Had to know all the tricks back then.
This comes up every so often and it was something I learned during the same conversation, so I always just pass it along.
For me the fingerprint unlock is just too convenient to not use, but it’s nice to know I can lock down my phone quickly if I need to.
Yeah. Ty. The toss metod isn’t as guaranteed as it once was.
I hate when that happens. Now they’ll have to take it to one of those repair places.
Look, we have a bastardized version of right to self repair, so they should just give it back to the owner. He might have problems fixing it, but still.
Crooks, who left behind no immediately available manifesto or record of the attack, unlike many other modern assassination plots or mass shootings. He was registered as a Republican voter and donated $15 to a Democratic-allied organization but did not maintain a large online presence.
Well this is thoroughly unhelpful.
Someone with the same name made the donation. At this point, we do not know if it was the assassin who made the donation, or an 80 year old with the same name.
IIRC the donation had his address on it, they do in fact know it was him.
Or GrandPa Crooks.
In any case, I’m still trying to figure out how closely-related the organization was. “Democrat allied” or whatever could be almost anything.
The organization was ActBlue.
ActBlue Charities Inc. is an American political action committee and fundraising platform established for serving left-leaning and Democratic nonprofits and politicians.
ActBlue handles donations for several organizations and candidates.
The specific affiliated organization he donated to was the Progressive Turnout Project
Federal Election Commission records show that a donor listed as Thomas Crooks with the gunman’s street address gave $15 to Progressive Turnout Project, a Democratic-aligned political action committee, on Inauguration Day in January 2021, when Crooks was 17.
It literally has the address of his house on it.
He donated money when he was 17. It was $15.
It’s the same info we knew 2 days ago, so and nothing was added, from the phone
unless brute force was done, it might be a cold boot, usb exploit or bootloader exploit by physically accessing the storage.
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Something sus about how quickly they can unlock phones when it’s attempted murderer killed dead and murder victims killed dead.
If it used face unlock, just have the dead body and prop the eyes open and you’re in?
I shouldn’t have, but I smiled.
I should clarify: I meant that if they’re law enforcement does the killing, cracking the phone takes much less time than it does when the phone belongs to the murder victim.
