The Trump shooting: what happened and what’s next
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The FBI got into the Trump shooter’s phone with the help of unreleased Cellebrite software.
According to a new Bloomberg report, the FBI’s initial attempts to break into the phone belonging to Thomas Matthew Crooks were unsuccessful.
But that changed once Cellebrite provided the agency with an unreleased, still-in-development update to its software. From there, it took just 40 minutes to access Crooks’ phone, which is described as “a newer Samsung model.”
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