" ... Long-deleted Tinder, forgotten messages, booked hotels, purchased tickets, history of keyboard entries, locations, Wi-Fi networks used - all this can be found out by the Serbian Ministry of Interior if it gets into someone's phone.
For years, the Ministry of Interior has been procuring highly intrusive equipment for mobile phone forensics, according to public procurement data of the Ministry. Today, the Ministry's National Center for Criminal Forensics has at its disposal tools from Cellebrite from Israel, Oxygen from the UK, MSAB from Sweden, Magnet from Canada, and recently Elcomsoft from Russia.
"With these devices, the entire content of the mobile phone is one click away for the police. "Such a system should not be used because it always collects more than what is prescribed by the court order," says Eitay Mack, an Israeli human rights lawyer.
Research by BIRN has shown that with this equipment all data from a mobile phone can be extracted and then analyzed, including the data of innocent persons ... "
BIRN's research covers, among other things, the following issues:
- unlocking locked phones: what software for hacking phones of the Ministry of Interior of Serbia can do;
- data in the cloud: the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Serbia can access data stored abroad;
- the Ministry can access the data of friends and third parties;
- from whom does the Ministry acquire tools for digital forensics?
More on this in Tinder dates, coffee with friends, credit card details - what the Ministry of Interior' s phone hacking software can reveal about you, by Aleksa Tešić
Source: BIRN >>