Kim Zetter
Journalist - cyber/natn'l security. Speaker. Georgetown adjunct prof. Author - COUNTDOWN TO ZERO DAY: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
Signal: KimZ.42
https://www.zetter-zeroday.com
- Seeing posts saying FBI could not get into WaPo reporter's phone because she had it in Lockdown Mode. This isn't true. They couldn't use forensic tool to capture full-disk image, but they could still access contents. They had to take photos of it, though, which is still a gain for privacy.
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- But doesn't it still sync with the Signal app on the phone when the phone goes online? I don't use Signal desktop, but I understood that if you send/receive something thru Signal app on phone it will reproduce itself in the desktop app.
- Wording of my post is confusing. To clarify, they *were* able to access phone content they wanted, but could not take it from disk image of phone. Instead, they took it from Signal app on her laptop because it sync'd w/ Signal on phone. So yes they could not unlock phone but did still access content
- So I was referring to posts I saw that claimed that because her phone was in Lockdown Mode they couldn't unlock the phone and get the contents. But they *did* get the contents, they just had to get it from the computer, and they had to collect it in a cumbersome way.
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- Ah, the wording of my post is confusing. I'm referring to them being able to access the content of her phone from the laptop because the Signal app was synced to her laptop. So they were able to access the phone content they wanted but weren't able to take a disk image from the phone
- Imagine a forensic team having to take photos of every piece of content they want and to re-record each voice recording. Making it uber-cumbersome and inconvenient for a government to collect data is still a win for privacy
- As Bezos's Washington Post announces sweeping layoffs this morning ...
- "The Republicans should say, 'We want to take over,'" Trump told Bongino. "We should take over the voting ... in at least many, 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting. We have states that are so crooked and they're counting votes." www.foxnews.com/politics/tru...
- I've read some pretty direct and outspoken court orders from judges before, but none as withering toward the government as this one
- I know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home. But did you look at the judge's order? It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept." Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- Polish grid systems targeted last month were wide open to attack, a new technical report from Polish gov says. Systems used default passwords and no multifactor authentication. Also used outdated/unpatched software. Investigators also found no connection to Sandworm, disputing security researchers
