404Media is reporting (alternate link) that a cyber-weapons arms manufacturer is exploiting a vulnerability in iOS to bypass its automatic reboot security feature. This is the feature that automatically puts an iPhone into a more secure state if it hasn’t been used for 72 hours. > The new technology to get around inactivity reboot was developed by Magnet > Forensics, the company behind GrayKey, a popular tool sold to law enforcement > agencies that allows them to unlock and access data stored in iPhones and > Android smartphones. Magnet has developed a new device called GrayKey Preserve > and a feature for its regular GrayKey devices called Evidence Preservation > Mode, according to the video...

This is coming: > The Irish government is planning to bolster its police’s ability to intercept > communications, including encrypted messages, and provide a legal basis for > spyware use.

I wrote about this in 2023. Here’s the story: > Three Dutch security analysts discovered the vulnerabilities­—five in > total—­in a European radio standard called TETRA (Terrestrial Trunked Radio), > which is used in radios made by Motorola, Damm, Hytera, and others. The > standard has been used in radios since the ’90s, but the flaws remained > unknown because encryption algorithms used in TETRA were kept secret until > now. There’s new news: > In 2023, Carlo Meijer, Wouter Bokslag, and Jos Wetzels of security firm > Midnight Blue, based in the Netherlands, discovered vulnerabilities in > encryption algorithms that are part of a European radio standard created by > ETSI called TETRA (Terrestrial Trunked Radio), which has been baked into radio > systems made by Motorola, Damm, Sepura, and others since the ’90s. The flaws > remained unknown publicly until their disclosure, because ETSI refused for > decades to let anyone examine the proprietary algorithms...

Good article from 404 Media on the cozy surveillance relationship between local Oregon police and ICE: > In the email thread, crime analysts from several local police departments and > the FBI introduced themselves to each other and made lists of surveillance > tools and tactics they have access to and felt comfortable using, and in some > cases offered to perform surveillance for their colleagues in other > departments. The thread also includes a member of ICE’s Homeland Security > Investigations (HSI) and members of Oregon’s State Police. In the thread, > called the “Southern Oregon Analyst Group,” some members talked about making > fake social media profiles to surveil people, and others discussed being > excited to learn and try new surveillance techniques. The emails show both the > wide array of surveillance tools that are available to even small police > departments in the United States and also shows informal collaboration between > local police departments and federal agencies, when ordinarily agencies like > ICE are expected to follow their own legal processes for carrying out the > surveillance...

The EFF has released its Atlas of Surveillance, which documents police surveillance technology across the US.