Smartphone privacy and Michigan State Police do not get along

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I was browsing Techdirt.com on some spare time I finally got today, and I was rather alarmed by this:

http://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireles...ic-stops.shtml

Here's the main quote from the article itself:

A US Department of Justice test of the CelleBrite UFED used by Michigan police found the device could grab all of the photos and video off of an iPhone within one-and-a-half minutes. The device works with 3000 different phone models and can even defeat password protections.

"Complete extraction of existing, hidden, and deleted phone data, including call history, text messages, contacts, images, and geotags," a CelleBrite brochure explains regarding the device's capabilities. "The Physical Analyzer allows visualization of both existing and deleted locations on Google Earth. In addition, location information from GPS devices and image geotags can be mapped on Google Maps."

This is insane. How can this even be legal?

Sorry for my stupidness. I saw this thread before. Why exactly are they doing this?

Beats me, I think we have something similar in California. That's why I built my crap app:
https://market.android.com/details?i...=search_result

I'm not too surprised. What we need is someone to develop something like truecrypt for android.

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Originally Posted by gravyflux

I'm not too surprised. What we need is someone to develop something like truecrypt for android.

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Someone is. The guy who made superoneclick (I'm drawing a blank on his username at the moment) said he was working on something like truecrypt for android.

There is already a thread open on this in Q&A, please search before opening a new thread