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The Netherlands Forensic Institute has found a way to crack Google Pixel phones, though it did not say which OS the phone was running. There is a high chance they were using an OS like GrapheneOS (www.omroepbrabant.nl)
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Since all three suspects were using Google Pixel phones. Or perhaps they are just fans of Google products.

They have already cracked one of the suspects' phones — that of Swedish national Veronica K., a suspect in a triple murder — prosecutors told the high-security court at Schiphol today.

The phone held images of weapons and stacks of cash, plus chats investigators can now read. The Forensic Institute expects to crack the two co-defendants' Pixels too.

Source: International Cyber Digest.

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[–] 1 point 1 week ago (1 child)

How do you figure "high chance"? Unless there is evidence pointing to GrapheneOS, I would consider the odds low since A) <1% of Pixel users run GOS, and B) GOS has a long and well documented history of being harder to crack.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    The title is copied from the source.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago*

    There are two links in this post, the English one makes the guess, the Dutch one that actually tells more about the case does not mention anything of it.
    So, probably they were just running stock Android.

    And how does the only proper article of the two linked here even fit tech news? It mostly discusses the muirder case (that it is a likely liquidation, involving Swedes).

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