Use Of Controversial Phone-Cracking Tool
Is Spreading Across Federal Government
Posted By: Ribicon, 2/10/2022 10:44:15 PM
Investigators with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service frequently work to thwart a variety of environmental offenses, from illegal deforestation to hunting without a license. While these are real crimes, they’re not typically associated with invasive phone hacking tools. But Fish and Wildlife agents are among the increasingly broad set of government employees who can now break into encrypted phones and siphon off mounds of data with technology purchased from the surveillance company Cellebrite. Across the federal government, agencies that don’t use Cellebrite technology are increasingly the exception, not the rule. Federal purchasing records and Cellebrite securities documents reviewed by The Intercept show that all but one of the 15
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Spying on US citizens is the very height of patriotism, and is necessary to keep us safe from hostile governments that might want to upend our way of life.